Disney’s Hannah Montana on Controversial Vanity Fair Cover
The Annie Leibovitz Reputation Search for Annie Leibovitz images and you will be bombarded with iconic and provocative images. There’s John Lennon wrapped like a vine on the tree trunk that is Yoko Ono on a Rolling Stone magazine cover, or a nude mother earth goddess Demi Moore with an arm draped over her breasts while the other cradles a protruding pregnant belly for a Vanity Fair magazine cover.
The picture above is a Disney commissioned image for their Where Dreams Come True campaign, which I feel can offer an inkling of Annie Leibovitz’s vision as an artist; given a sanitized Disney version of the classic Alice in Wonderland tale, she creates a patina of beautiful colors with an underlying hint of lust and possible perversion. Exquisite and disturbing. (I’m an Annie Leibovitz fan, by the way.)
Annie Leibovitz, as an artist, is concerned about showing her subjects in a different light that they’ve never been seen before. She has the gift of tongue that helps her gain her subjects’ trust and confidence, thus moving them to bare themselves physically, emotionally and psychologically.
Combustible Combination Miley Cyrus, who plays Hannah Montana in the hit Disney series, has shown rumblings of rebellion against her Disney imposed fresh and clean image by taking naughty pictures of herself and posting them on the World Wide Web.
Therefore, putting a highly suggestible subject under the direction of a charismatic and persuasive photographer, is asking for trouble. Annie Leibovitz will be predictably interested in showing Miley Cyrus as far removed as possible from her Hannah Montana wholesome image.
You add the fact that this is Vanity Fair magazine, which has its own reputation for producing provocative images, and you have a totally flammable situation.
Why Did You Leave Your Daughter? Given that this is a potentially dangerous situation, why did the parents of 15 year old Miley Cyrus give their consent for a Vanity Fair magazine cover? Why did they consent to having her picture taken by famed Annie Leibovitz? Why did her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, leave the photo shoot for a prior commitment?
Miley Cyrus is a minor. A minor. I strongly feel that her guardian should not be able to fob off his responsibility by claiming that he would never have consented to the controversial pictures being taken if he had been there.
That’s exactly the point. He should have been there to protest.
To see the Annie Leibovitz image for the Vanity Fair June 2008 cover, please click here.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 am
Bad publicity is still publicity. She’s the current cash cow and the parents, who don’t necessarily rank high on the state of taste anyway (remember his hairdo?), will milk it for all it’s worth. If they had just kept their opinions to themselves, made a statement that it is an elegant photo, then there wouldn’t be any furor. This just increases sales of the VF copy, plus maybe gets some DOMs out there to buy her albums (this sort of reminds me of Britney…).