On this day in 1949, American portrait photographer Anna-Lou “Annie” Leibovitz was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the third of six children.Leibovitz started her career working for the newly launched Rolling Stone Magazine in 1970. Her work includes many intimate celebrity portraits, including one of John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a 1980 Rolling Stones cover, the last professional photo of Lennon to be taken before he was shot and killed five hours later.
Fannie Hershberger Plank, made this Rolling Stone (or Broken Wheel) quilt around 1921 in the Amish community of Arthur, Illinois. The quilt is machine pieced and hand quilted, and is now in the collection of the Illinois State Museum.
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Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz
Posted by Amy E. Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org