Annie Leibovitz and Rogier Van Der Weyden

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Rogier van der Weyden was around way before Annie Leibovitz time. Rogier live during the 1400s. Due to the loss of archives there aren’t many facts of van der Weyden's life. His surviving works are mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He took pictures of models, idealizing certain facial features, and they were usually placed like statues. All of his pictures are rich in color and a sympathetic expression. He took most of his pictures half length and half profile. He also took a lot of religious photographs. Weyden used a broad range of colors and varied tones. He never repeated the same tone in any other area of the canvas, even the whites are different shades. Rogier's most famous paintings were four large panels of the Justice of Trajan and Justice of Herkenbald. Rogier used an enormous scale for painting on a panel at that time. He had influence on European painting, not only in France and Germany but also in Italy and in Spain. Annie Leibovitz, like Weyden used a new style of lighting and bold colors. She is a “portrait photography” photographer. However, different than Weyden’s tendency to pose his models as statues, Leibovitz used unique poses. Leibovitz works consist of amazing, ionic, powerful photographs. Society and politics played a role in her photographs. Weyden’s photos were beautifully painted, but some what boring- that is of course in my opinion. Her most ionic photographs were those of Yoko Ono & John Lennon, which was taken for the cover of Rolling Stone. John Lennon was assassinated later that afternoon. She photographed Demi Moore nude & pregnant for the cover of Vanity Fair. In May 2007, Leibovitz photographed Queen Elizabeth II when she asked her to take off her crown during a shoot. Whoopi Goldberg was photographed from above in a bathtub full of milk, contrasting her dark skin to

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