The Arrogant Disregard for Art

It's no secret: I despise Annie Leibowitz.

Here's a woman who takes a legendary pompous and arrogant attitude with everyone she shoots. If you've ever been on a Leibowitz shoot, or know someone who has, you know that she basically forces here assistants to do all of the work, then comes out, presses the button, and charges you six figures. She only gets access because she's been shooting since skateboards had clay wheels and was with Rolling Stone from the start and that she overcharges for photos on Vogue. Her photos are cliched, soul-less and without compelling angles. Yet, she's regarded as cultural Americana. Remember, only the most edgy or safe are remembered in this country.

Stern remarks how his photo shoot with her was very uncomfortable because she had such a fucking attitude.

This is also a woman who, when her girlfriend was dying and being carted off in an ambulance, instead of holding her hand, she photographed it. This is also a woman who shot gothic child porn with Miley Cyrus and hid behind the shield of "well her parents were there". Yeah, the cops should have been there - I've been on sets where parents sat near their kids while their kids did speed in the dressing room. Hollywood parents, generally, allow their kids to do anything. Leibowitz should have had more sense to not shoot a naked child in a blanket, with a come hither stare and an anorexic look.

That's the type of person she is to me. With magazines laying off hundreds of workers, one picture/one photo shoot from her for one issue could pay the salaries of 4 assitants for a year. Your subscription to Vogue or Rolling Stone supplies her greed and gluttony.

So it's no surprise to me that, instead of maybe dialing back her gluttonous spending spree to own homes and debt too large for her to handle, she mortgages and essentially pawns her entire library of photos. That's just gluttenous, greedy arrogance gone wild. I wish nothing but bankruptcy for her. If she was a nice person, or less arrogant, I would hope she could pull out of it - but you reap what you sow. She's sowed a career of being a pompous, disrespectful ass to the people she'd shoot, like Queen of England, for instance, (not like I would do any different) telling her "do you know who I am". People like this in this business deserve to lose anything and everything they have as a payback for how they've treated everyone. Like Martha Stewart and her arrogant ass going to jail - she deserved it, mostly for being a legendary bitch.

Maybe it will bring her back down to normal.

If anything, you hope she was once normal.

For your curiosity, here's an article. You'll probably be able to buy her photos on ebay very soon!