explore.dream.discover.: Annie Leibovitz

On Friday, Matt and I went for lunch at the Hard Rock Café. It was delicious! I was so excited for my chicken tenders and Matt got a burger. I really felt like I was in the US (except for the awful service).

After Matt left, I went to five photography exhibits throughout Madrid called PHotoEspaña. My favorite was definitely Annie Leibovitz’ exhibit. Her work is amazing! It ranges from silver gelatin prints of family members to color portraits of celebrities to photos of genocide in Rwanda. I admire her work because she can take any situation and create a beautiful photograph of it. You might recognize a few of her photographs:

Brad Pitt

Demi Moore in 1991 pregnant with her daughter, Rumer Willis (father, Bruce Willis)

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

When I got back I googled her and found that she is the one behind the beautiful Disneyland ads I’ve seen in magazines. She took celebrities and dressed them up as Disney characters for her “Disney Dream Portrait Series”. Her photographs were in magazines in 2007 advertising Disneyland’s “Year of a Million Dreams”. Do you recognize the celebrities?

Jessica Biel as Pocahontas

Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan
Giselle Bündchen as Wendy
Tina Fey as Tinkerbell

Beyoncé as Alice
Oliver Platt as the Mad Hatter
Lyle Lovett as the March Hare

Julianne Moore as The Little Mermaid

Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella

David Beckham as Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony as Jasmine and Aladdin

Annie Leibovitz also did a beautiful fashion spread in Vogue called Alice in Wonderland. It's an artistic take on Lewis Carroll's classic. This collection features Russian model, Natalia Vodianova, as Alice.