Well, Patti Smith did tell all young artists to get out of New York and “find a new city,” so let’s set sail to Disneyland, arrr! Annie Leibovitz is working her way out of debt with this latest series of Disney Park ad portraits. The Pirate Patti and Johnny Depp insert will run in May’s Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, InStyle and People. Read more »
Recently fished out of financial hell by Colony Capital, Annie Leibovitz is already another $800k in debt. The investment firm who arranged Leibovitz’s deal with Colony and helped save her entire catalog from being confiscated collateral, is suing for unpaid fees. Over the last few years, a combination of reckless spending and personal misfortunes has left the photographer broke. Shuffling deals around hasn’t helped enough and she’s still swimming upstream through a shit storm. |NYP|
There’s a parallel between Annie Leibovitz and former portrait subject Michael Jackson and it’s not just the fantastic financial hole both had dug themselves into with wild spending. Read more »
For the Fall issue of Purple magazine, Sean Lennon appears in a recreation of his parents’ famous 1981 Rolling Stone cover, their last photo together by financially troubled photographer Annie Leibovitz. The new snap by Terry Richardson features Sean in his mother’s place while nude model Kemp Muhl fills in for his dead father. See the semi-NSFW homage below. Read more »
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