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1、听力理解Annie Leibovitz Has Been Photographing Famous People for 35 Years安妮莱博维茨35年的名人摄影生涯英语听力:asf听力文件无病毒，请放心打开(MUSIC)BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty.FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. This week we tell about one of the best-known photographers in America
2、today. For more than thirty-five years, Annie Leibovitz has been taking pictures of famous people including politicians, actors and athletes. A current exhibit of the past fifteen years of her work is based on a book she recently published. The book and exhibit show photographs from her personal as
3、well as professional life.(MUSIC)BOB DOUGHTY: Annie Leibovitz was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, in nineteen forty-nine. Her family moved often because her father was an officer in the Air Force. For college, Annie studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in California. She discovered he
4、r interest in photography during a trip to Japan with her mother. So she took night classes in photography at college.Leibovitz began her career taking photographs for Rolling Stone magazine in nineteen seventy, shortly after the publication was first launched. Her first project there was to photogr
5、aph John Lennon, a member of the British band the Beatles. Three years later, she became the chief photographer for the magazine. Leibovitz took pictures of musicians like Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Bob Marley.She also traveled with the Rolling Stones rock band in nineteen seventy-five to capture th
6、eir life on the road while they performed concerts around the world.FAITH LAPIDUS: In nineteen eighty-one, Rolling Stone magazine asked her to photograph John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono. Leibovitz had imagined photographing the couple without clothes. But Yoko Ono opposed the idea. Leibovitz ende
7、d up taking a picture of Yoko Ono in dark clothes with John Lennon lying next to her without clothing. John Lennon was murdered several hours after this picture was taken. It was published on the cover of Rolling Stone. It has since become one of the most famous magazine covers in the world. In two
8、thousand five, the American Society of Magazine Editors named it the best magazine cover published in the last forty years.(MUSIC)BOB DOUGHTY: Annie Leibovitz later worked for the magazines Vanity Fair and Vogue. She is known for her colourful photographs of people in wildly inventive or playful set
9、tings. For example, Leibovitz photographed the African American actress Whoopi Goldberg in a bathtub filled with milk.In her portrait of the actor Brad Pitt, he is lying on an orange bed in a bright orange and yellow room. A photograph of former president Bill Clinton shows him happily sitting in th
10、e Oval Office of the White House during the first weeks of his presidency.FAITH LAPIDUS: One of Annie Leibovitzs most famous and most disputed photographs is of the actress Demi Moore. She was photographed seven months pregnant, wearing nothing but jewelry. At first, Leibovitz did not plan for this
11、picture to be published. But it was such a strikingly beautiful image, that it was put on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Neither Leibovitz nor Vanity Fair expected the amount of attention the photograph received. The American Society of Magazine Editors listed this photograph of Demi Moore as th
12、e second best cover published in the last forty years.BOB DOUGHTY: Annie Leibovitz has also worked on several large advertisement campaigns for companies including American Express, Gap, and Disney. For her Disney series, she photographed famous people dressed as characters from popular stories like
13、 “Cinderella” and “Alice in Wonderland.”In one photograph, the actress Scarlett Johansson is dressed as Cinderella. She wears diamond jewelry in her hair and a big blue dress. In the background, you can see her glass shoe and a magical looking palace building in the fog.(MUSIC)FAITH LAPIDUS: An exhi
14、bit of the photographs of Annie Leibovitz opened last October at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It is called “Annie Leibovitz:” A Photographers Life, 1990-2005. “The exhibit started in Brooklyn, New York, and will travel around the United States and Europe. The collection of more th
15、an two hundred photographs in the show is based on Annie Leibovitzs book by the same name. She wrote the book after the death of two people she loved very much. Here Leibovitz talks about the book and what it is like to see her pictures again in this traveling exhibition.ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: This show r
16、eally came out of this book, “A Photographers Life.” It came out of, really a moment in my life. I am very, very proud of this show, but it is a difficult thing to look back at because it came out of a moment when my father died, Susan Sontag died, my children were being born. And it seemed the most important thing at that moment.BOB DOUGHTY: Walking through the Corcoran exhibit, visitors can follow the path of Leibovitzs career. But, m
