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What lens is used by Annie Leibovitz?

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When I went through her photographs made during her early career stage at Rolling Stones it looks like wide angle lens to me but her book only mentions that Annie uses portrait length lens which I suspect refers to her later studio bound career.
Does anyone know what lens she used for her earlier 'journalism style' shots?
 
I don't know why you refer to it as "journalism style." She was a journalist.
 
I have a vague recollection that she preferred to use normal to short-telephoto lenses.
 
The John Lennon Yoko Ono cover was, I believe, shot using a Polaroid camera or back.
 

No photojournalist — which she was back then — on assingment would carry just one lens. Minimum three lens set-up for the 35mm camera would be either a 28mm or a 35mm, a 50mm and either a 85mm or 105mm. this minimal set-up allowed you to adapt to the situation — outdoors, hotel room, portrait, group, etc. — and get the strongest possible shot. That shot was your livelihood. You didn't want to miss it by not having the right lens nearby.

BTW, contrary to popular belief, Henri Cartier-Bresson carried a 35mm and a 90mm lens with his 50mm when on assignment, not just the 50mm.

Young Annie L. and her Nikon :

 

Very interesting. I wonder who's Bob that is written on that box. Robert Love worked at Rolling Stones around 80s so that it most likely not him.
 
She did a lot of work with RZ67 cameras. I think she's using some sort of Hasselblad digital setup these days. Prolific, tremendous volume of work.
 
Here's Larry Burrows with his set.



Back to Annie's lenses. This was probably a 28mm



Probably an 85mm

 
Is 85mm a guess on your part or did the man with his back to us say this was his estimate on looking?

pentaxuser
 
Alex Benjamin said:
I'd put my money on a 20mm.



2 or 3 cameras, 2 or 3 different lenses (wide, normal, short tele) allows for quick reaction to the situation, rather than having to change lenses. Was a familiar set-up during the Vietnam war.




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It's safe to assume that the camera with widest lens is closest to the chin and the longest is the furthest
 
pentaxuser said:
Is 85mm a guess on your part or did the man with his back to us say this was his estimate on looking?

pentaxuser
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Alex guessed the lens is 28mm while Arnie may said it is 85mm
 
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