annie leibowitz

Investigating The Miley Cyrus ‘Topless’ Photo Scandal: Career-Ender Or Standard Starlet Move?

9:30AM Molly Friedman | Vanity Fair has done it again. In their upcoming issue, famed photographer Annie Leibovitz shot a controversial photo spread featuring Billion Dollar Girl Miley Cyrus, prompting public outrage from the Christian Coalition, Disney and, naturally, the ladies of The View. Leibovitz and VF are being accused of crossing the line between art and pedophilia by shooting Cyrus in what some are calling “topless” photos (shown after the jump). Before the issue has even hit newsstands, Miley has apologised to her fans and Disney, concerned that the spread could affect the Hannah Montana cash cow. But this isn’t the first time VF has hired one of their star photographers to use her lens in an effort to reinvent the images of underage starlets by featuring them in a slightly more provocative and mature light… More »

BBC Producers Apologise To Queen For Editing Her To Look Like A Nightmare Bitch From Hell

5:45AM Defamer Hollywood | A promo clip released yesterday of BBC documentary A Year with the Queen showed Annie Leibovitz requesting that Queen Elizabeth II remove her crown for a picture. The Queen’s response was to incapacitate her with a royal shoe pressed against her neck, threatening, “Ask that of me again and I shall crush your trachea like a bug,” before storming out of the session in a huff. Not all was what it seemed, however, and producers have issued apologies to both parties for having creatively rearranged their footage for maximum diva-rampage potential. From BBC News: The BBC has apologised to the Queen for wrongly implying she walked out of a portrait session with photographer Annie Leibovitz during a documentary. More »

Annie Leibovitz Learns ‘Let’s Try One Without The Crown’ Doesn’t Fly With An Actual Queen

4:55AM Defamer Hollywood | What happened when leading celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz – a bold artist known to throw fits when the “preternaturally” prop baby DHL’d to her Vanity Fair cover shoot doesn’t meet her exacting specifications – was assigned to shoot a legendarily frigid monarch? Things got tense, especially when the portraitist suggested to the Queen of England that she remove her crown, and BBC cameras were there to capture the entire exchange. From The Times Online: The Queen arrived in white fur stole, gold-embroidered evening dress, Order of the Garter robes and diamond tiara, as requested. But Leibovitz, a perfectionist who once persuaded Whoopi Goldberg to pose in a bath of milk, had a change of heart. More »