MAKE UP YOUR MIND • "Miley Cyrus doesn't regret her controversial, semi-topless Vanity Fair spread shot by Annie Leibovitz earlier this year. In fact, she says the pictures inspired her to want to be a photographer. … 'I just had to deal with that and just realize that I got to work with an amazing photographer,' she said. 'She was amazing and so talented and her lighting… I would love to work with her again. … That's what I want to do with my life. I would love to be a photographer.'"
And here it is: The "scandalous" photo of Angelina Jolie breastfeeding one of her new babies on the cover of W magazine. If nobody would have made a big to-do about this in the first place, we wouldn't have looked twice at the picture.
LIFE GETS SECOND LIFE "The executives at Time clearly believe in eternal Life. The publishing giant said Tuesday that its venerable Life magazine will again be reincarnated, this time as Life.com. Time has partnered with Getty Images to launch Life.com as a destination for thousands of new and classic photos in early 2009. The new version of Life, perhaps best known for its iconic images of presidents, war and Hollywood icons from the 1950s and '60s, follows the 2007 closure of the most recent Sunday supplement version of the magazine. Time is looking to leverage the power of the Web to be timely and deep. Life.com will publish 3,000 new images each day from across the globe while also housing archives of thousands of Life magazine photos from the '30s through the '90s."
It's not hard to make John McCain look silly in photographs, what with his perma-scowl and crazy comb-over, so one wonders why celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a loyal Democrat, put so much effort into sabotaging a recent shoot with the Arizona senator.
Not only did Greenberg use a strobe light to "[turn] the septuagenarian's face into a horror show of shadows," according to the New York Post, she also didn't use Photoshop to touch up the images the shoot yielded. To industry publication Photo District News, Greenberg admitted, "I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad." Funny.
Not laughing is The Atlantic. The magazine most likely to be found on Ivy Leaguers' toilets bought one of Greenberg's biased photos for use on their current cover, not knowing that it was product of such an "unprofessional" shoot. "We feel totally blind-sided," said editor James Bennet, covering his ass.
Greenberg's having her cake and eating it, too. Besides landing on the cover of The Atlantic, her tainted images have been a great source of amusement for the photographer, who has on her Web site posted an updated set in which she's added a monkey pooping on McCain's head to one and a mouth of razor-sharp, bloody teeth to another, complete with a text bubble reading, "I am a bloodthirsty warmonger."
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Brad Pitt doesn't want to be known for his boyish good looks, successful movie career or relationship with Saint Angelina — turns out what he really wants to do is take pictures. No, seriously. He wants to be a professional photographer. W magazine is on board with his childhood fantasy and has decided to allow Brad to shoot Angie and the kids for the November issue.
This is Pitt's inaugural turn creating a cover, although photography has been a longtime hobby of his. Not only did he appear on the March 2007 cover of Interview wielding a camera, Jolie reportedly gave him a Littman 45 single camera as a birthday gift.
Well by all means — if he's photographed holding a camera and was given a fancy one for his birthday, then he must be good.
Apparently, when GQ's photo shoots are not infantilizing women, they are very dull and plainly stolen from Terry Richardson. Better, but still bad.
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