On commercial photography——similarities and differences between annie leibovitz and chen man’s works

This paper discusses the scenery characteristics of two outstanding female fashion photographers. Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Annie Leibovitz is a regular big-name photographer for Vanity Fair and the highest-paid photographer in the world. She has developed a keen interest in photography since she was young. She often took the window as the viewfinder, and the scenery outside the window was the photo created by her associations. In her high school years, she has developed a strong interest in art. When she was at the San Francisco Art Institute, she met Sasha Michelle, a teacher who had a profound influence on her art career. During this period, her photography skills have steadily improved. Annie is famous for her unique style of portrait photography, and in particular, her celebrity portraits enjoy great prestige in the circle of photography. As a renowned female commercial photographer in China, Chen Man takes photos of many celebrities with exaggerated modeling, resulting in strong visual impact. Chen Man has been fond of painting since she was young, and she was sent to study in the Children’s Palace when her mother found her talent in painting. Due to her mother’s strict attitude, she successfully gained the opportunity to study in the Photography Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Involved in many fields during her studies, in a manner of speaking, she is a designer, a director and a painter, and also a promoter of traditional Oriental philosophy, which has played a great role in the promotion of her later aesthetic ideas in photography works. She skillfully combines “fashion” with “traditional Chinese philosophy”