US photographer Annie Leibovitz has won the prestigious Prince of Asturias award for humanities.
One of the world's top portrait photographers, the jury hailed her as a "driving force" in photojournalism.Her pictures, which include singer John Lennon naked and actress Demi Moore pregnant, "reflect an era of politics, literature, film, music and sport".
Annie Leibovitz will be presented with the 50,000 euro (£40,000) prize, one of Spain's highest honours, in October 2013
Her shots have made the front pages of magazines such as Rolling Stone, where she started her career in 1970, and Vogue, for which she has worked for the last 15 years. She is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
One of her best-known cover shots was for Vanity Fair in 1991, when she photographed a naked Moore, who was seven months pregnant
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