Annie Leibovitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I still am trying to figure that out.
Okay.
Well, just pick me up wherever I start to, you know.
Things start to fall out of the side of my mouth or something.
Well, I love this show, and you're amazing.
And we're waiting for you to have your own show.
Tell John that.
We really didn't know what we were doing when we did it.
I mean, quite honestly.
In fact, I was sent out by Vanity Fair to do a cover, and they said, well, you know, unfortunately, Demi's pregnant, so you'll have to, like, you know, come in tight and, you know, do what you can, you know, do the best you can.
Yeah.
And I happened to know Bruce and Demi and had photographed them before and done some private pictures of them when she was pregnant with her first child.
So at the end of our cover sitting, I said, do you want me to photograph you, you know, nude with the second baby?
And she said, sure, that'd be great.
And then I was looking at her, and I was thinking, you know, this is kind of interesting.
This could be maybe if you cover yourself in the right places, this could be a cover.
Brought it back to New York.
And it was Susan Sontag, actually, who said, this is really important.
And, you know, we went to Tina Brown, and we made sure Demi was comfortable with it, and we did it.
And, you know, it was funny, because we said, how do we talk about this?