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Alice Waters
Kensington, California, 2017
Photographing Alice Waters - Behind the scenes of ALICE WATERS | Vanity Fair
Annie photographed Alice Waters many times over the years, but she never felt that she had made a truly successful portrait. Alice is a pioneer of the farm-to-table food movement and a fellow MasterClass instructor. She has been photographed often in a garden, and Annie herself had photographed Alice in an apple orchard. This time she began thinking of Alice’s emblematic status. Posters for the Victory Gardens of World Wars I and II were considered.
Annie also began looking at Julia Margaret Cameron’s portraits of women and discovered that the one that seemed most like Alice was in fact Alice Liddell, the model for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.The element that became most significant in the shoot was a peach. Alice had written about peaches in a recent memoir and peaches seemed to suggest her sensual qualities. Just the right peaches were obtained with some difficulty.
The shoot took place in Alice’s front yard in Berkeley, California, with Edith Piaf singing in the background. The light that day was bright, but Annie tucked Alice into the shade of a bush. She held the peach. Annie edits the contact sheets for the entire shoot and pares them down. When she works with the technician on the computer she tries to emulate the color and light that she saw in person. She does not want to see the strobe. She tries to strike a balance of color and light to create the most natural-looking image. Editing the photo may never feel finished. Annie talks about there being another thing she might want to change, but she’s not sure what that would be.
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Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue
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© Sally Mann. Courtesy Gagosian.
Photographs by Richard Avedon, © The Richard Avedon Foundation
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© Robert Frank
Annie Leibovitz (photographer)
Alice Waters (portrait model).
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Who is Alice Waters?
Alice Louise Waters (born April 28, 1944) is an American chef, restaurateur, activist and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine, which she opened in 1971.
Born: April 28, 1944, Chatham Borough, New J...
Works written: Chez Panisse Cooking, The Art of ...
Founded: Chez Panisse Foundation, Cafe Fanny
Profession: Chef, Restaurateur, Author
Who is Annie Leibovitz?
Annie Leibovitz is one of the world’s most esteemed photographers. Annie began working as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970, while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. She became Rolling Stone’s chief photographer in 1973. Ten years later, when she joined the staff of the revived Vanity Fair, she began developing a large body of work that expanded her collective portrait of contemporary life. In addition to her editorial work at Vanity Fair and Vogue, she created influential advertising campaigns. Several collections of her work have been published and exhibitions of her photographs have appeared at museums and galleries all over the world.
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