Thursday, September 3, 2009


And Another Thing:
Because her father was an Air Force officer, famous photographer Annie Leibovitz traveled the nation via automobile (see yesterday's blog). Her view of the world was often through the prism of a car window -- a framing device that formed much of her work.

John and Yoko On what would be the last day of his life, John Lennon posed for photographs with Yoko Ono in a session with photographer Annie Liebovitz. One of the pictures, a naked Lennon curled around and kissing a clothed Ono, became the cover for Rolling Stone magazine’s tribute to him. That iconic image published a month after his December 1980 death has been ranked the top magazine cover of the last 40 years by a panel of magazine editors, artists and designers.

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