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Article: Annie Leibovitz Puts Celebrity Worship in Focus
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 24, 1994
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What happens when a photographer gets as famous as the actors,
authors, artists, dancers and presidents she frames? Instead of
cultivating a VIP vanity of her own, Annie Leibovitz uses her fame to
fashion startling portraits that satirize our obsession with
celebrity.
"She's probably one of the best-known photographers on earth,"
said Willis Hartshorn, director the International Center of
Photography in New York City. Hartshorn and William Stapp, formerly
photography curator at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington,
D.C., assembled an ...