Rolling Stone

is an American portrait photographer best known for her engaging portraits, particularly of celebrities. Leibovitz's Polaroid photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken five hours before Lennon's murder, is considered one of Rolling Stone magazine's most famous cover photographs. The Library of Congress declared her a Living Legend, and she is the first woman to have a feature exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery.

was an American photographer, best known for his work in the late 1960s for the music magazine Rolling Stone, becoming the magazine’s first chief photographer from 1967 until late 1970. In this period, his photographs of Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Phil Spector, Jim Morrison, Ike & Tina Turner and other musicians became the graphic centerpieces of Rolling Stone’s layout.

In 1967, his picture of Tina Turner at a concert at the hungry-i club made it on the cover of the second issue of Rolling Stone, which made Tina the very first woman on the cover of this magazine:

„Tina Turner was appearing at the hungry-i in San Francisco when I took the Issue No. 2 photograph. The stage was only three feet high and the small round table at which I was sitting was so close to Ike and Tina and the Ikettes that I could see the drops of sweat on their necks and faces.“

was an American photographer, hired as a photojournalist by Rolling Stone magazine where he captured shots of the Rolling Stones in the recording studio as well as from Joni Mitchell and Iggy Pop at music festivals and many other musicians. Following this early success, he expanded into fashion photography and fine art and became a television producer.

One of the pictures from Robert Altman’s photo session at the Gold Rush Festival in 1969 made it on the November issue of the Rolling Stone cover. The same picture was also used for the book „Rolling Stone: The Complete Covers 1967 - 1997“ as one of several alternative cover pictures.

„Robert Altman captured sex-on-heels dynamo Tina Turner unleashing her primal rock intensity in a revealing macramé skirt and bikini top in 1969.“