{"id":248,"date":"2008-04-02T20:56:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T03:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/the-great-annie-leibovitz\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T23:22:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T06:22:39","slug":"the-great-annie-leibovitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/02\/the-great-annie-leibovitz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Annie Leibovitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Observer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

What Makes Annie Shoot?<\/h1>\n

The great Leibovitz realized she was never a journalist but made news with magazine covers. An artist who was once fascinated with her subjects lately seems largely fascinated with herself<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0BY<\/span>\u00a0CHOIRE SICHA<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI look back at it now,\u201d Annie Leibovitz said at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1991, \u201cI realize that one of the things I loved toward the end at\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0were the conceptual covers.\u201d She had left for\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0in 1983, in part to follow an art director she admired. There she did little until Tina Brown arrived all bluster and balls in 1984\u2014and then she did a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"This<\/a> Jann Wenner,\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s owner-operator, had become overly concerned about newsstand sales. \u201cHe wanted really clean, you know, head shots really. There was a study\u2014they started to do studies, you know,\u201d Ms. Leibovitz said. \u201cAnd they came up with this study that the conceptual covers didn\u2019t sell well because the person wasn\u2019t recognizable. \u2026 For example, the Steve Martin photograph against the Franz Kline painting was the worst-selling cover that year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Annie Leibovitz had gotten too rock \u2019n\u2019 roll forRolling Stone<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

That worst-selling cover\u2014from February 1982\u2014is a real mess, in today\u2019s focus-group-in-a-Chicago-mall terms. Mr. Martin, in a suit, is painted with crude black stripes, and is in mid-campy-dance-step. The black-and-white painting looms beyond him. (Inside you might have learned that he would prefer not to discuss his relationship with Bernadette Peters.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there was her Matt Dillon cover late that year. Mr. Dillon, pouty and incredibly young, is in slacks and shirt and tie, twisted and reclining, one leg up, thereby showing half his ass\u2014and with his crotch placed nearly dead center on the magazine\u2019s cover. What definitely seems to be Mr. Dillon\u2019s extended middle finger rests near his square hairline. It was her last\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/em>cover. Now that\u2019s how you say goodbye\u2014to your magazine, your youth, whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Leibovitz was, for much of the 80\u2019s, an unusual bridge between the fine art world and the commercial world. This meant that in her practice she gathered commerce in one hand and journalism in the other.
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Then as magazines went, so went Annie Leibovitz.<\/span><\/p>\n

[ click to view full article at the New York Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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