I just finished watching a great documentary about Annie Leibovitz that was done for American Masters, a PBS show, called Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens. Annie has had several exhibits in San Francisco and the west coast that I've been able to see, most recently the exhibit in 2008 at the De Young, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005. I've always thought she is an amazing photographer, her photographs in Vanity Fair and Vogue some of the most interesting and creative I've seen in magazines.
What I did not know was that Annie got her start right here in San Francisco! She was a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and got her start photographing musicians when Rolling Stone was new (I also did not know that Rolling Stone started in San Francisco, although in retrospect it makes perfect sense). She hung out with some of the bohemian characters of San Francisco's past, people I've been fascinated by and that lived or spent time in my former neighborhood, the Haight-Ashbury. People like Hunter S. Thompson, the Rolling Stones, and the Grateful Dead.
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