Through Her Lens – Photographs Angelina Jolie-Again!

In her new book, Annie Leibovitz, our most famous photographer, places celebs side by side with surprisingly personal images of love and loss.

Take Leibovitz’s Jack Nicholson picture. Whenever she was busy setting up a shot inside his Mulholland Drive house, he’d disappear out back to drive golf balls–and that became the photograph.

Annie Leibovitz is tired and nursing a cold, and she’ s just flown back to New York on the red-eye from Los Angeles, where she spent two days shooting Angelina Jolie for Vogue.

Like so many of her photo sessions, there was nothing simple about it. “I talked with Angelina before the shoot,” says Leibovitz, who’s famous for her preparation. “She felt like she was coming back from having the baby and she felt very sexy and ready to go.” Jolie, a pilot, suggested shooting on an old airfield near the desert, with motorcycles and small planes among the props. (She flew herself to the location and the next day, Brad Pitt buzzed up in his plane.) They also spent a day shooting in the dunes near Death Valley, where the mercury hit 104, and the wind whipped so hard that everyone was peppered with sand. There were 50 people on the set, and racks of clothes from the New York spring collections to be tried and styled. It was as if Leibovitz were directing a small movie. Read More…

Expect Angelina Jolie to grace the November 2006 or December 2006 issue of Vogue.

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Through Her Lens – Photographs Angelina Jolie-Again!

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