Professional photographer Annie Leibovitz, being most known for her dramatic, piercing photos of powerful shots and her trait for using nude models in numerous amounts of work, has caused an uproar in her recent pieces of artwork. Critics have described her work from the pure and capturing, spiralling towards "over photo-shopped territory". One photograph taken for Lavazza calendar has been described as one of the "worst photographs ever made" said to contain an unattractive model surrounded by lazy production where the foreground fails to align with the lighting of the background.
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| Images described as "The Worst Photograph Ever Made" |
Throughout the years, Leibovitz has developed along with the trends, so it is of no surprise that her work has swayed towards the evolution of photoshop. While looking at one of her most memorable images of whoopi Goldberg appearing from a bath tub of milk, compared to her 2007 '
Disney Dream Portraits' where Whoopi reinacts the '
Genie', we see a massive difference in the technique of reproduction. Although Leibovitz is recreating some of Disney's well known characters from a cartoon, critics can't help but comment on the drastic changes from her classical photography, to her modern out take of photoshop rather than the skills from a photographer giving the graphic designer a bigger role in this series than expressed.
Personally I think the effects behind the Disney Dream Portraits have been much more to do Annie's vision of the image and how it relates back to the film. Having Whoopi and other well-known celebrities appear in this Disney themed series only boosts the publicity of seeing a famous face as a well loved character being brought to life.
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| Noticing the difference from her classic shot of Goldberg to her recent photoshop enhanced Disney Dream Portrait. |
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