John Lennon and Yoko Ono, New York City, 1980
Whoopi Goldberg, Berkeley, California, 1984
Demi Moore, 1991
Jennifer Miller, New York City, 1996
Eileen Collins, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, 1999
Further Reading
Bowman, Kathleen, and Larry Soule.New Women in Media.
Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1976.
Harris, Mark Edward.Faces of the 20th Century: Master
Photographers and Their Work. New York: Abbeville
Press, 1998.
Leibovitz, Annie.Dancers. Washington, DC: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1992.
———.Olympic Portraits. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1996.
———.Photographs. Introduction by Tom Wolfe. New
York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
———. and Ingrid Sischy.Photographs, Annie Leibovitz,
1970–1990. International Center for Photography and
National Portrait Gallery, eds. New York: Harper Per-
ennial, 1992.
———.Women. Introduction by Susan Sontag. New York:
Random House, 1999.
Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, eds.Stardust: Annie
Leibovitz 1970–1999. Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, 2000.
Marcus, Adrianne.The Photojournalist: Mary Ellen Mark
and Annie Leibovitz. Los Angeles: Alskog, Inc., 1974.
Nickerson, Camilla, and Neville Wakefield, eds.Fashion:
Photography of the Nineties. New York: Scalo, 1998.JEAN-CLAUDE LEMAGNY
France
Jean-Claude Lemagny has played multiple roles in
the world of fine-art photography. His extensive
academic achievements include a License in His-
tory and Geography, a Certificate in French Lit-
erature, a Certificate in Art of the Middle Ages, a
Superior Studies Diploma in the History of Art,
and an Aggregation in History, which is a presti-
gious professional qualification as a teacher. In
1963, he was named Chief Curator for the De-
partment of Prints and Photographs at the Bib-
liothe`que nationale de France (BNF). His first
responsibilities at the BNF included cataloguing
art books and eighteenth century French engrav-
ings. In 1968, he became responsible for the con-
temporary photography collection. He was also a
professor at L’Ecole du Louvre, teaching classes in
eighteenth century engraving. In 1998, Lemagny
retired as official curator of photography and was
named an Honorary General Curator of the BNF.
An articulate and prolific writer, Lemagny pro-
duced hundreds of articles and several major books
on exhibitions, individual photographers, move-
ments, or themes in photography. He both orga-
nized and participated in numerous conferences
and colloquiums on photography in France and
around the world, attending untold numbers of
openings and receptions for photography. By invi-
tation from other institutions, he often guest curated
exhibitions or wrote accompanying text for catalo-
gues. He participated in the first meetings with
Lucien Clergue to organize the Rencontre Interna-
tionale d’Arles, an international photography event
that began in 1970. This annual event brought thou-
sands of participants each summer to the south of
France to participate in a variety of both structured
and spontaneous photo activities, including exhibi-
tions, public and private critiques, workshops, and
lectures. The streets could be filled for days with
people looking at or showing photographs. Though
Lemagny was sometimes invited to give an official
presentation at Rencontre d’Arles, his presence was
more often at his personal initiative. Summer after
summer, Lemagny could be found seated at a table,
often at the Hotel Arlatan, reviewing photogra-
phers’ portfolios on a first-come-first-served basis,
the line of hopeful artists sometimes stretching for
blocks. He would take a break at noon to eat a
sandwich and otherwise spent the day looking at
and talking about hundreds of photographs.
In his role as Curator of Photography at the
BNF, Lemagny considered himself a public servant
and wanted to serve. He handled administrative
activities of the department, met regularly with
contemporary artists, organized monthly exhibi-
tions with texts for the Galerie Colbert, the photo-
graphy exhibition space for the BNF, and every
week was available for consultation to researchers
in the Prints and Photographs reading room. HeLEIBOVITZ, ANNIE