Anna-Lou, known as Annie Leibovitz, is an American portrait photographer, and the first woman to hold an exhibition at the National Gallery of Portrait in Washington in 1991. She is a third generation American, her father's parents were Romanian Jews. She is known for her work being used for numerous cover albums and magazines. She attended the Art Institute in San Francisco, where she studied painting, with the intention of becoming an art teacher. She had her first photo workshop at school, after which she changed her major into a photography.