Lesbian artists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Chapters: Tove Jansson, Alison Bechdel, Rosa Bonheur, Annie Leibovitz, Judy Baca, Berenice Abbott, Rachel Carns, Claude Cahun, Yvonne Rainer, Alice Austen, Joan Snyder, Virginie Bovie, Anne Seymour Damer, Linda Montano, Clara Sipprell, K8 Hardy, Zoe Strauss, Maggi Hambling, Sadie Benning, Tee Corinne, Julie Mehretu, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Laura Gilpin, Diane DiMassa, Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge, The Blow, Jennifer Camper, Tharon Musser, Sherry Glaser, Ariel Schrag, Joan E. Biren, Megan Rose Gedris, Harriet Hosmer, Louise Abbéma, Jessica Rankin, Barbara Hammer, Emma Stebbins, Cecilia Dougherty, Agnes Goodsir, Gluck, Midi Onodera, Tuulikki Pietilä, Kiss and Tell collective, Catherine Opie, Betty Parsons, Sky Lee, Mary Meigs, Tammy Rae Carland, Holly Hughes, Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, Ursula Martinez, Suzanne Malherbe, Efva Attling, Sonia Sekula, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Collier Schorr, Jess Dobkin. Excerpt: Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz ( ; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Leibovitz is the third of six children. She is a third-generation American whose great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants, from Central and Eastern Europe. Her father's parents had emigrated from Romania. Her mother, Marilyn Leibovitz, was a modern dance instructor of Estonian Jewish heritage; her father, Sam Leibovitz, was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. The family moved frequently with her father's duty assignments, and she took her first pictures when he was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. In high school, she became interested in various artistic endeavours, and began to write and play music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting. There she learnt all her skills from her teacher Sasha Michelle, who Annie says she owes a lot of her career to. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while working various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969. When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the just launched Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look. While working for Rolling Stone, Leibovitz became more aware of the other magazines. Richard Avedon's portraits were an important and powerful example in her life. She learned that you can work for magazines and still do your own personal work, which for her was the most important thing. It is much more intimate and tells a story for her as she works with people who love her and who will "Open their hearts and souls and lives to you." Photographers such as Robert Frank and Hen