Not quite sure what went wrong here, but Annie Leibovitz or Anna Wintour really fucked up this month. Maybe Vogue couldn’t afford to get all of these actresses to this mountain beach scene at the same time (or at all?) so they thought photoshop would be a good alternative. The results? SO BAD. I’m thinking it was Anna, because Annie scored bigtime on the inside:

However, Annie Leibovitz is known for making composites, but normally they’re pretty believable. Who do you think is the culprit?

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Annie Leibovitz joins guest designers, including Damien Hirst, to help Louis Vuitton raise money for the Red Cross. Leibovitz has designed a red-lined back pack filled with nifty compartments to transport her camera equipment, whilst Hirst has designed a tall black blue-lined trunk with several small draws inside to keep his surgical equipment safe

There’s nothing like having high quality prints of Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel and several other established photographer’s work in the confines of your own home. I had the opportunity to snag a copy of Dolce & Gabbana’s collaborated photo compilation, Extreme Beauty In Vogue, before it hit’s shelves in October, and I must admit, I feel like a child staring at a picture book, completely mesmerized by every photo. Edited by Phyllis Posnick with an essay by Eva Respini, Extreme Beauty In Vogue exposes photographic, stylistic and journalistic perceptions of female beauty and opinions on allure. Featuring two centuries of work, the evolution of cultural attitudes on women is exposed in this coffee-table must have. And for those of you hung up on Vogue’s typical conservatism, there’s enough nipples, asses, bestiality and blood to suit your fancy. Shove your Beatles anthology to the side folks, because this $55 investment is what your dinner guests should be snooping through!

GALLERY: Extreme Beauty In Vogue

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A couple of Annie Leibovitz’s past editorials focusing on the splendor of the regal: From 2004’s Vogue US “French Twists” avec monsieur Gerard Depardieu.

The latest Core Values ad campaign has hit the web. This time the folks at Louis Vuitton decided to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by having Annie Leibovitz shoot astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell and Sally Ride.

Shot on the high plateaux of the Californian desert the campaign features a beautiful shot of the moon as the three spacemen/women gaze longingly. Louis Vuitton’s Icare travel bag in Monogram canvas also makes an appearance. 

Check out www.louisvuittonjourneys.com to get some insight from Annie Leibovitz’s on the campaign and interviews with the astronauts. 

It’s amazing what a little contorted posing and photoshop (I’m assuming) can do for an overweight songbird. Adele is the latest chunk monster to get Voguefied. Annie Leibovitz shot this image of the recent Grammy winner, creating a shape that is a far, far cry for her normal build. Arms stretched, laying on the bed angularly while wearing all black and holding your cheek chunk back while trying to look comfortable is not a shape, it’s a yoga move, but it’s definitely not a shape.

Why can’t Vogue take the route of a soon to be more successful magazine (LOVE) and just shoot the fat girls like their fat? What’s so wrong with showcasing a couple rolls?

For those who don’t know what Adele really looks like with out the Vogue retouching there’s a photo below.

LINKAGE: Adele Gets Slimmed Down In Vogue [Mag Hag]

To celebrate “Two Decades of Glamour” Badgley Mischka has recruited some of their Hollywood favorites.

Eva Longoria, Carrie Underwood, Brooke Shields, Lauren Hutton and Anjelica Huston will appear alongside the designers in an ad campiagn for Badgley Mischka’s 20th anniversary.

The ad campaign, by Annie Leibovitz, will debut in April magazines.

With spring break just around the corner, I find it more likely that some indies will be making the transatlantic  journey to Milan for a fabulous fashion themed getaway. If you happen to be one of those lucky few, I advise that you make time to visit Milan’s Palazzo della Ragione for the “Extreme Beauty In Vogue” exhibit. In honor of Dolce & Gabbana’s makeup collection debut, the exhibit analyzes the role of beauty in modern culture via Vogue spreads over the past 75 years. The breathtaking works of world renowned photographers like Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Steven Klein appear in the exhibit created and curated by American Vogue. Excuse me while I go book plane tickets to Italy. 

Gallery: Extreme Beauty In Vogue

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The Obaminator has been gracing the cover of mags for some time, but now Annie Leibovitz (active supporter of King Kong blacks and putting non-whites on the inside flap of Vanity Fair) gets her chance to shoot some iconic “That’s My President” imagery. The cover isn’t anything special but the shot of him and Michelle walking down Washington is pretty CNN worthy if you ask me.

Annie Leibovitz worked her magic on the already sufficiently magical Cate Blanchett for the February 2009 issue of Vanity Fair.

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The story of the eternal star crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet as seen by the eyes of Annie Leibovitz and Vogue.

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Cover

January-February: La Storia

March-April: La Moda

May-June: L'Arte

July-August: La Seduzione

September-October: La Cucina

November-Dezember: Il Cinema

Lavazza calendars have pretty much set the bar for all other calendars. It’s all about making Lavazza seem like it’s at the epicenter of the coolest of affairs. The 2009 calendar is out and in keeping with Lavazza’s tradition of picking great photographers, it was shot by Annie Leibovitz. The theme for this year was Italy and the passion with which Italians approach life.

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Sir Sean Connery, the original James Bond, is the picture of masculine cool as the latest celebrity to be featured in the French luxury giant’s “core values” campaign underlining its travel roots.

Photographed on a beach near his home in the Bahamas, the iconic actor is propped on a wooden dock next to a waterproof version of Vuitton’s Keepall bag. The photo Annie Leibovitz submitted was actually a test, before he was handed over to the hair and makeup crews, Bernard Arnault said. “In this case, we had the opportunity to work with a legend,” he added. “He’s been on our list for a very long time.”

Arriving just in time for the November release of “Quantum of Solace,” the latest Bond film starring Daniel Craig, Vuitton’s Connery images are slated to run for roughly a year, in tandem with other personalities from the series, including Keith Richards and the duo of Francis Ford Coppola and his directing daughter, Sofia.

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Annie Leibovitz has enjoyed a career as one of the most celebrated celebrity photographers of our time, responsible for countless shots that have included a who’s who of celebs, rock stars, and political figures. Recently, as in before all the Miley Cyrus bull shit, Leibovitz shot Giselle Bundchen and Lebron James for a cover of Vogue that had many in the fashion world and media question the photographers ulterior motives in many of her shoots.

In my opinion, Leibovitz career has been tarnished by her brazen attempt to objectify African-Americans as wild, King Kong-ish beasts, but photos from her over 14 years at Vanity Fair suggest that maybe the lack of love for brownies started a long, long time ago. Check out the photos below from some of Vanity Fair’s most famous Leibovitz cover shots. The first panel is the front page which is what the buying public sees. The second and third panel are usually tucked away from the viewers eye. It’s called the Annie Leibovitz Black Bump and it’s the perfect way to include a darker skinned person in a photoshoot (allowing Annie and Vanity Fair to maintain their “We Love Black People” stance) without giving them prime real estate on the front cover.

Angela Bassett gets the black bump

So does Will Smith

As does his wife Jada Pinkett Smith

Thandie Newton Gets the cover but darker skinned Omar Eps gets the bump

Too tan for Anne. Rosario Dawson gets pushed back

Samuel L. Jackson and Don Cheadle get pushed to the back of the bus

Rosario Dawson and Kerry Washington get the bump

Zoe Salanda gets the bump (and the worst outfit) America Ferra barely makes the frame

Eight high profile covers, 12 top “brown” celebrities pushed to the side. Do you see a problem with this picture?

By now everyone and their grandmother has seen this non-controverisal, controversial Miley Cyrus photo, photographed by that smut-peddler Annie Leibovitz. It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a ‘real’ Inqusition post, but this incident has pulled me out of hibernation.

I couldn’t help but become irate that while watching my half-an-hour of real news, from 6:30-7, all they seemed to talk about was this photo. And then it went to the hour of entertainment shows, and it was all about the photos. And then the news at 10 and 11, and so on and so on.

Am I the only person seeing someone’s semi-emaciated back? I kept thinking a boob had popped out and I had just not noticed. But no. At a time when you can see Miley with her day-glow bra exposed all over the internet, that photo is controversial? If there was going to be a semi-nude photo of me on the internet I would rather it be taken by Annie Lebowitz any day.

And another thing, what’s the deal with blaming Annie Leibovitz? Is that really fooling anyone? From the press I’ve heard, you would have thought it was Terry Richardson taking the photo!

Does she realize that Leibovitz shots every other photoshoot that appears in magazines? In a few years when Cyrus will inevitably shot one those obligatory GAP Icons ads-who do you think is going to shoot it? Let’s just hope she doesn’t piss off Inez and Vindooh.

Why is this photo such a big deal? Because Miley does not own herself, no she is the property of The Walt Disney Corporation. She is their commodity and that commodity is innocence. And they are going to hold onto that till she marries her elementary sweetheart in Vegas for 52 hours and effectively loses all her fanbase with increasingly erratic behavior. It’s the tried and true Britney formula. And another thing she isn’t the first celebrity to mix her youth and innocence with risqué, suggestive photos.

Remember this?

(Britney photographed by David LaChapelle for Rolling Stone at 17)

Or the originator:

(Brooke Shields at 15 in those infamous Calvin Klein ads)

The truth is, this is such a none story. I don’t mind Billy Bush talking about this photo with the same gravity as if it’s the war in Iraq, because that’s his job-to talk about nothing as if it’s something. But when Charlie Gibson starts speaking about the scandal like it’s Iraq, we’ve got problems. So CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, and FOX NEWS back off of the Miley Cyrus photo-semi-nude-back-gate and leave it to the professionals-us bloggers. Who else has nothing better to do than take an hour out of day to write about Miley Cyrus? Now if you don’t mind I’m going to watch me some CNN. And Miley, if you think that photos is embarrassing at least you haven’t posed for an American Apparel ad yet!