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Rob Haggart, aka A Photo Editor, does a great job introducing this video of Annie Leibovitz photographing Queen Elizabeth.

What I find interesting in photo shoot videos is not the 11 assistants or the lighting setup but watching the photographer interact with the subject.

As Rob says, "Annie really shows her tenacity in this video when she immediately tries to get the Queen to remove her crown after deciding it doesn't look good in the first shot and not giving up on an original request to shoot the Queen on horseback inside the state apartments."

Simultaneously fascinating and terrifying -- like watching a trapeze artist at work.

 Mar 4, 2008  •  tags: annieleibovitz queenelizabeth photography

A collection of group photos taken by Annie Leibovitz for the cover of Vanity Fair. That's an unfortunate getup on Sarah Jessica Parker.

 Nov 13, 2007  •  tags: annieleibovitz photography celebrities

Youngna Park has a short wrap-up of going to see Annie Leibovitz speak about her new book, A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005. "And, so it goes, said Leibovitz, that some of us use words in order to take good pictures, and some of us take pictures, in order that we can be heard."

 Oct 11, 2006  •  tags: youngnapark photography annieleibovitz

Slideshow of photographs by Annie Leibovitz documenting the building of The New York Times Building in NYC. (thx, michael)

 Dec 15, 2005  •  tags: annieleibovitz photography nytimes cities nyc skyscrapers architecture