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Dir: Barbara Leibovitz.
Description: American photographer Annie Leibovitz makes the headlines almost as much as some of her subjects, most recently over the BBC documentary The Year With The Queen. Her iconic images of the rich, the powerful and the beautiful frequently adorn the front covers of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair and she was one of the last people to photograph John Lennon before his death. Leibovitz's sister Barbara pays tribute to this visionary in a documentary which includes contributions from her admirers and subjects, among them Hillary Rodham Clinton, Whoopi Goldberg, Mick Jagger, Yoko Ono and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Country: US. 2006. 83mins
Iconic: Annie Leibovitz makes Hollywood's elite look born to rule
Annie Leibovitz is a royal photographer. She infamously took pictures of the Queen last year. She also makes Hollywood's elite look born to rule, usually in the pages of Vanity Fair or Vogue.
This documentary, shot by her sister, Barbara, explains why A-list stars want to work with her, but also delves into the (much more interesting) stuff she used to get up to.
Even as a nipper, the Connecticut-born Leibovitz looked like a cross between Barbra Streisand and Joey Ramone.
While working for Rolling Stone magazine, she took drugs so she could melt into the background with rock stars and keep up with mentor Hunter S Thompson.
Then, apparently overnight, she cleaned up her act, met and fell in love with the intellectual Susan Sontag and, in her fifties, had three children.
It's quite a trajectory but - though she cries while discussing Sontag's death in 2004 - Leibovitz doesn't exactly open up.
Even when it comes to discussing iconic photos such as the one she took of John Lennon and Yoko in bed - hours before his death - she's stays shtum.
The director has found a life worth shedding light on. It's just a shame that her lens isn't as probing as Annie's.
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