Look: Vanity Fair's 'Something Just Clicked' Collection
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Vanity Fair is known for their ambitious (and sometimes controversial) photo spreads, and whenever one pops up online -- with the exception of those ultra funky Hitchcock recreations -- the name most likely associated with them is Annie Leibovitz. She's worked as the featured portrait photographer for VF since 1983, and some of her most buzzed-about photos include the very pregnant (and very naked) Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover, as well as the sexed-up Miley Cyrus photo that caused quite the stir last year. Some of the more geeky Leibovitz images can be found in her series of Disney photographs featuring celebs recreating classic scenes from our favorite Walt Disney movies (read more about that here and here).
This time around, Leibovitz's Something Just Clicked collection for Vanity Fair features 10 partnerships that helped generate more than four dozen Oscar nods this year. The image above, featuring Christopher Nolan and Heath Ledger (The Risktakers), is of course a composite, but it's one of my favorites -- especially the way they position both Nolan and Ledger, with the former quietly sneaking off to the corner away from the spotlight. Other partnerships photographed include Woody Allen and Penelope Cruz (The Odd Couple), Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann (The Colonists), Gus Van Sant and Sean Penn (The Milk Men), Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet (The Partnership) and Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke (The Ringers), among others. Check out a few of our favorites below, then swing over to Vanity Fair to see the rest.
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2-04-2009 @ 3:43PM
ICON! said...
Nolan and Ledger as well as the Arnofsky and Rourke, are hands down the better ones of the bunch. They capture more than just the moment, The others are just simple pics. in my opinion.
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2-04-2009 @ 4:35PM
jeff said...
I'll go on record being a little ticked about the composite photo of Nolan (taken in 2008) with a Leibovitz portrait of Ledger (taken in 2005), as if he's still alive... Why? Why not shoot Nolan holding a print of the old Ledger photo? Or do something crazy like pin dozens of Ledger pictures on Nolan's shirt? That would have been more appropriate, and more interesting.
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2-24-2009 @ 4:20AM
Kate said...
Because YOU were not creating and directing the photo shoot, that's why! (Thank god!) Go to school get a photography career,or develope an eye for art and then YOU can take whatever photo YOU like.
2-10-2009 @ 12:17AM
jeff said...
Jeez, what a jerk I am to share my opinion. I thought these talk-backs were a venue for critique, and that's all I was doing. Maybe I'm wrong. But actually, Kate, I have been to school, I did take photography, and I do earn income from it.
You could have just said "I disagree. I think the composite photo is cool because of X, Y and Z." Why take it so personally and lash out at a stranger. Are you Annie Leibovitz in disguise?
2-24-2009 @ 4:32AM
Kate L said...
If you cannot take the heat then do not comment! I do happen to be a photographer too! Make a very good living at it t and I have never touched a digital camera. Film all the way! That is real photography. Any one can take what you had in mind! Kid with cell phone could! It was your callus "as if he were still alive" comment that pissed me off. How disrespectful! The man was a huge part of the DK's success, of course he should be in the photo! How would you like it If you helped create something worth talking about and then you died and the powers that be left you out because you were dead? Some of the best and well known photographers are now dead, and yet we see their work everywhere, painters too. Without respect you would make a terrible portrait photographer, hopefully you have a different medium. No I am not Annie. Get off the "Bash Heath train" its getting old, reading it everywhere! Go out and get some good shots instead!
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