First Analysis

The photographer of this photo is Annie Liebowitz who is an American portrait photographer. She was born on October 2 1949 (age 63.) She grew up in Waterbury in the united states.

She took this photo of Meryl Streep (the famous film star) for the cover of the rolling stone magazine. Meryl was becoming an upcoming actress and gaining lots of attention.

This photo is shot straight on and is a medium close-up. Meryl Streep is looking straight into the camera, as if she was trying to make the viewer part of the picture. The fascinating thing about this picture is that we cant see the hands or arms. The photo was taken so we can not see whos hands are pulling on meryls face, it could be hers or someone else's. This photo looks like it has only little lighting to it, but most of it is all straight on.

I really like this photo, I like how Meryl is the only thing in the photo and the background is just plain so that our attention is only on her. Annie put Meryl in a plain white t-shirt and white face paint and that make me think that maybe she wanted to be seen as a normal person. I like how her face was being pulled, this makes me think that she was pretending to be someone or something that she wasn't.