Annie Leibovitz Shoots Sears with Kardashians
Is it just me, or is there something dreadfully bizzare just off with this whole thingie?
The Gothamist thinks so.
So seriously, am I off my rocker being sort of suspended in disbelief?
Here’s the behind the scenes video from Elle.com, which was even weirder…
I don’t see what the big deal is and why so many people are spewing such negativity over an ad campaign. I mean for crying out loud get over yourselves you’re feeling yourselves a little way too much. They’re famous (granted for not doing anything) and they wanted the best to shoot the ad and the client is Sears. So what? Ok she’s shot some of the most famous and influential people of our time. Does that mean she should be a snob about it and say ‘Sears…oh no that is way beneath me I won’t do it.’? At the end of the day, she’s running a business that the purpose of a business is to make money. I seriously doubt if any of the above haters would turn down that gig.
The client dictates the shoot and we only saw what was shown to us. People are comparing her commercial work to the ad. Well considering it’s for Sears, I doubt you can really get all that creative like she normally would and just have to work through it.
im sure this was mentioned already, i dont have time to read all the comments.. But the middle face in the left photo looks equivalent to my retouching skills in photoshop 6.0 circa 2000.. Yikes is right
I guess she just badly needs the money.
What’s strange to me is not that she did the shoot, but that she looks uncomfortable, the posing is uncomfortable, and the girls look uncomfortable. This is not the work I’ve come to know from her and that saddens me more than anything.
Annie is a commercial portrait photographer so I don’t judge on her doing this shoot – it fits within the parameters of her niche. I will comment, however, on the lack of creativity that usually comes from her images which is her trademark and one of the reasons she is recognized as one of the greats. The end product is standard catalog shots that most professional commercial photographers can accomplish. I think she failed in the delivery, not in the decision to do the project.