Portraiture: A Master Class

The Iconographic Portrait
Leibovitz: "My pictures are helped by an environment. I love the street. I love going to someone's house, seeing what's on their walls, what chair they sit in. I like to see how they live. When I shot Bill Gates at his home in Bellevue, Washington, every time we set up lights between shots he would disappear and I'd find him sitting at his computer. It was all he did. This was before computers were omnipresent.

I was bewildered, and I thought that I would never want to have one. Then I realized that was the picture."

Here, Susan Sontag, 1988.