BBC 1 Tues 10.35pm. Imagine Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens

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For those not following http://www.bbc.co.uk/imagine/

Tonight http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/programme.shtml?day=today&service_id=4223&filename=20080610/20080610_2235_4223_3350_60

More about A L http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/leibovitz_a.html

Viewers who haven't heard her name will certainly have seen her pictures: from a naked and pregnant Demi Moore to Bruce Springsteen's famous pose in front of the American flag, or a naked John Lennon curled up and vulnerable next to a fully-clothed Yoko Ono. Leibovitz's images are instantly recognisable.

In her 50s now, the photographer is still universally in demand from pop stars to political leaders, rebel-rousers to royalty (including our very own Queen) and she's no stranger to controversy. Her recent photographs of Disney Star Miley Sirus caused a storm when the 15-year-old was seen wearing only a sheet.

In her personal life, too, Annie has veered from the customary path: having a lengthy relationship with the late Susan Sontag and giving birth at the age of 51, having realised she had 'forgotten' to have children.

In this documentary, Leibovitz's sister Barbara has had intimate access to the photographer's life and work and shows the viewer that the two are inseparable.
 
Oh, sweet , cheers for the heads up, the wife is away for the rest of the week so it's going to be a right old tog fest now...
Now if only i can find the films under fire and war photographer it would be a complete week.
 
Thanks for this - I've set the Sky+ box too :)
 
oooh very timely, thanks :)
 
im stuck at work, but ill get it on bbc i player..... after eastenders of course.....
 
I found this incredibly interesting and inspiring. Time to order another book for my collection, me thinks!
 
Just finished watching this one myself - really enjoyed it - very interesting. Quite moving at the end too with the shots of dying father and friend.

A good watch. Cheers for the heads up!

Anth.
 
Caught a good portion of this and it was very good. Inspiring stuff got me thinking :)
Thanks for posting the thread Slipper one :thumbs:
 
it is now on BBC iPlayer for the 6 next days, just finished watching it.
An amazing documentary into her life, moving at the end, inspirational and enlightening.
What was mad was that photo of John Lennon, never knew it was taken just hours before he died. Makes it now seem so much more powerful.
 
You can watche it via the bbc's iplayer for the next 7 days
 
Thanks about the iplayer stuff, but any idea if/when it is on real telly? (I spend enough time in front of this screen without watching tv on it)......
 
Fabulous documentary.....

I Found her and her work very inspiring and super creative ... somehow I feel free again today to take snaps of anything I want....

I loved the way all those famous celebrities actually crumbled when they realized they where going to be photographed by her. ...you don't see that humbling very often.

And her vanity fair bosses comment about her shoots getting more and more vast and props becoming very expensive ... but she just didn't care..."yes, yes, just give her what she wants" :lol: ... the next scene was the marching band appearing in a corn field.
 
JumboBeef said:
Thanks about the iplayer stuff, but any idea if/when it is on real telly? (I spend enough time in front of this screen without watching tv on it)......
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Have had a look on the bbc site but no joy, reckon best bet will be to look on BBC3 listings on Sky and see if it is repeated on there, normally stuff is, if not drop them an email and ask, can't do any harm.
 
I've downloaded it and that gives me 30 days to watch it before it automatically deletes or 7 days after I watch it.

Can always plug my laptop into the telly and watch it on that.

Thanks folks!
 
Thanks for the thanks.
I'm lost for words to describe A L and I think Chris Rock referred to her as 'the worlds most famous photographer' :clap::thumbs: but that doesn't do her justice, she head and shoulders above most if not all the others.
And yes the end was a bit moving.

I might be able to save this to dvd for future use;) pm me.

Russ
 
wingnut said:
Have had a look on the bbc site but no joy, reckon best bet will be to look on BBC3 listings on Sky and see if it is repeated on there, normally stuff is, if not drop them an email and ask, can't do any harm.
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I have Digiguide, which has listings looking forward two weeks for the Beeb. No sign of a repeat in that timeframe.
 
I thought she came across really well in this documentary, she isn't how I expected her to be, one on one.
She is however what I expected on set :|

I was interested in the George Clooney/Julia roberts shoot, it was the cover shot for Vanity Fair's green issue, at a later stage RF Kennedy Jr and Al Gore were added.

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There's no problem with adding peeps, (getting those 4 peeps in the same place at the same time must be impossible), but...she has been dogged in recent years by accusations of "artful borrowing"
This photo is very similar compositionally to Irving Penn's "Ballet Society", a portrait of four ballet members shot in 1948.
I was kinda sceptical, nothing is new under the sun, so she borrowed a few elements from a famous photo...so what, we're all shaped by what we see.
Then I saw the Vanity Fair cover, I can now see what they are talking about, pure accident ???
Anyway, I found this article while searching for the green issue Vanity Fair.

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The DVD is a available from overseas eBay sellers, but hadn't been released in the UK when I looked for it a couple of months ago.
 
seems too extraordinarily similar to be a coincidence but people are always influences in their work as long as it was never set out to be a straight copy I think its flattery rather than anything else.
 
Just giving this a bump in case folks missed it. I downloaded it from the BBC iplayer and it's easy peasey. Watched it on Thursday and it it truly inspiring.

Fabulous programme. I'm going to watch it again tonight.

Watch it on iplayer if you missed it.
 
I missed this the other night, but I'm downloading it now (15 mins to go :))
 
I caught it. Having a five week old baby helps out when the good stuff is on late at night. Pretty moving, the images she took of Susan Sontag's body was very moving. I don't think I would ever be brave enough to photograph something so emotionally involving.
 
I watched it yesterday, and TBH it has changed my perception.
I expected her to be a pretentious arty self-righteous madam TBH.

What I say was a down to earth person, who has had this amazing life through what I consider to be the formative years of the heart of a modern celebrity obsessed society.

I'm not sure how much of my perception was down to good editing, but you gotta admit, she's certainly 'been there...done that'.
 
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