Annie Leibovitz criticized for snapping racy Miley Cyrus photo
May 3rd, 2008 by Scott Marks
It’s not the fault of an underage bimbette wanting desperately to be like her celebrity role models. Nor are the young superstar’s redneck parents to blame for their daughter’s scandalous Vanity Fair photoshoot. When denial fails, blame the photographer.
Legendary celebrity shooter Annie Leibovitz has come under fire for pushing stars to go too far.
The prestigious photographer topped the headlines earlier this week when provocative shots she took of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus for Vanity Fair magazine first hit the internet.
The teenager, Leibovitz and Vanity Fair bosses have been blasted by the media and family values groups for one shot in particular, in which Cyrus poses topless, wrapped in a satin sheet.
Make that satan’s sheet!
Both Leibovitz and Cyrus have since stated the photos have been misinterpreted in the media, with the snapper calling the “beautiful” satin sheet photo “a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup.”
Now stars clamoring for the spotlight are coming out to expose Leibovitz’s techniques.
Former teen icon and Mormon hasbeen Donny Osmond, who has already criticized Cyrus for posing seductively, has now taken aim at Leibovitz, recalling one of the first times he met her for a Rolling Stone magazine photoshoot.
He says, “I was about 14 or 15… It’s always, `Push it a little farther.’ She went a little too far with that picture of Miley.”
What’s the matter, Donny, did your magic Mormon underpants get a little tight when looking at Miley’s photo? And who aside from the president of NAMBLA wants to see topless photos of an underage Donny Osmond?
I suppose that Liebovitz was also the one who took control of Miley’s webcam and masterminded the scandalous “green bra” photos. If Svengali Leibovitz wields that much power, let’s see her coax an Academy Award winning performance out of young Cyrus.
Even loud-mouthed character-breaker Robin Williams had to add his two cents. Speaking on The Tonight Show on Thursday, funnyman Williams confessed, “(Leibovitz) will get you to do anything. She’ll (be) like, `Put a rogue flare in your ass, go out in that field, let’s shoot it!’ She had a picture she wanted to do with Eddie Murphy and I, where she wanted Eddie to be in white face (makeup) and me to be in black face, and I said, `Listen, there’s not a lot of mimes that are going to kick Eddie’s ass, but the painted black face may not go so well for me.’”
For a goof, someone should coat Williams with burnt cork and deposit him in Harlem.
Links:
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This is so strange. That photograph looks to me like a tired, annoyed fifteen year-old girl wearing too much makeup. Other people look at it and see, uh… let’s say something else…
Anyway, guys, points taken from the last post. I’m not saying it’s “okay” for fifteen year-olds to sex it up all over the place. I DO think, though, that they’ll experiment about where to draw the line with that stuff, and make mistakes from time to time. They’ll, you know, be teenagers.
My real point was that as a Disney cashcow they’ll just publicly punish her and hope all this stuff will go away, which it won’t. She’s fifteen and feelin’ bold, her fans are eleven and feelin’ scared. Anyone can see this is going to create a problem, but since there’s money and contracts flying all around the place no one involved can treat the situation with any degree of normalcy.
God, who knew Billy Ray Cyrus was cooking up a plan for world domination back when the rest of us thought he was a one-hit wonder? I wonder what else this guy cooked up at the lab.
Let’s not blame Leibovitz for this. Yes, she likes to push the envelope, but Miley and her people had every right to say “no”. Miley clearly wants to be seen in this light, and that doesn’t bother her dad, just as long as the checks clear. I personally don’t think that she should have done any of this, but what’s done is done and I am sure it certainly will not be career suicide. I mean, after all, many young boys in the 50s focused on Annette’s boobs on the Old Mickey Mouse Club and she parlayed that into a film career hooking up with Frankie. Disney Channel shows only last three years anyway, and “Hannah”, despite being a cash cow, is almost over with its run and her agent would be smart to try to get her into some kind of film role where she plays a Lolita type to capitalize on this and away from her image as tween Disney mind-numbing pop music queen. But here I am as a talent manager working in the biz thinking all about the $$$.
First Lindsay, then Vanessa, now Miley. What is it with Disney chicks can’t keeping their clothes on?
we gotta rember she might have been forced! miley isfifteen. they are adults. then again miley is a young lady who will soon be a woman. her parents were there , she must’ve not wanted to dissapoint them. miley looks very scared in thoose photos.