US Vanity Fair February 2010 : Tiger Woods by Annie Leibovitz

[MissMagAddict]

One of the most epic falls from grace in modern history... that's a very compelling article by an excellent writer.

Can't wait to read Boogie Nights: An Oral History of Disco by Lisa Robinson

Also a piece on Maruizio Cattelan by Ingrid Sischy. I'll devour anything she writes.

And the articles on the O.S. Wall Street sequel & Patti Smith both sound good as well.

Can't wait to have this issue in my hands.

 

[bluedolphin]

Tiger is joke

 

[TheCheekyCritic]

Although for all the talk of how 'awful' his body is, I wouldn't kick any man who looked like that out of my house.

I don't think anyone here is criticizing his body, though. Clearly, the man is in great shape. But this isn't a very attractive picture of it (or him), the lighting and pose being particularly unflattering. Perhaps that was the point in putting this particular picture on the cover, to show him in a different light, but from a purely aesthetic perspective I fail to appreciate it.

But then I also fail to appreciate the point in putting this picture on the cover at all. Why he should appear shirtless, flexing his muscles in a post-scandal feature is to me just unnecessarily tabloid-esque and void of genuine commentary, no matter how insightful and intelligent the inside article may reveal itself. I do on some internal level enjoy the irony of it all, but I'm not entirely convinced it is intended.

 

[tigerrouge]

But Vanity Fair is a high-gloss tabloid, that's what the magazine has always been. If you look at the issues produced under Tina Brown, you'll see Vanity Fair at full throttle - the version we have now is a watered-down one in comparison, but it's still the same beast, despite its milder manners.

The Daily Mail comments:

[But] the revealing cover shot and a set of photos inside the magazine of the stripped-down golfer working out - including one of him hanging from a bar - show off his body as never before.

They were taken by acclaimed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in January, 2006, long before he reputation was wrecked by the stream of allegations that the father-of-two cheated on his wife Elin Nordegren with as many as a dozen women. But they still show the golfer in a very different light to the genial gentleman of the greens he was known as before the scandal.

The portfolio is part of a session snapped by Ms Leibowitz to show off the golf champion’s buffed up body and his keep-fit regimen. Under the headline ‘Tiger in the Rough’, Woods is seen in one photograph inside wearing the same wool cap as on the cover but with his bare back turned to the camera. In another shot, he is seen naked from thje chest up and staring menacingly. A third photo shows him doing sit-ups.

The magazine says the pictures capture Woods ‘in prophetic isolation.’

There was some mystery over how the photos surfaced last night. Vanity Fair said the ‘raw, unguarded’ pictures were part of the photographer’s archive and that she approached the magazine with them after the cheating scandal broke.

A spokeswoman said she didn’t know why the three-year-old photos hadn’t been published earlier and Ms Leibvovitz wasn’t available for comment last night.

The accompanying article includes interviews with some of the sports reporters who covered Woods for years to find out how he kept his philandering secret for so long.

Writer Buzz Bissinger also revisits the embarrassing interview the then 21-year-old Woods gave to GQ magazine in 1997 when he joked about lesbian sex and the endowments of black athletes.

 

[nijuyanah]

What's the purpose of putting TIGER WOODS on a cover?

 

[TheCheekyCritic]

But Vanity Fair is a high-gloss tabloid, that's what the magazine has always been.

Hmm. You may have a point there, though (at least until now) I've never been able to consciously identify the magazine as such. Fooled by the glossy exterior! But perhaps that's why I've never been able to appreciate the magazine for its contents, which I've always found rather weak and uninteresting. Also, I loathe the highly overrated and overused Annie Leibovitz, which also probably has a lot do with it.

 

[tarsha]

Amid the Hollywood throng of talented young actresses, the author talks to six standouts, who have been shaping their careers in very different ways, parlaying famous last names, Disney hits, and paparazzi pressure into edgier, more grown-up material. Lily Collins, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Isabel Lucas, Amber Heard, and Zoë Kravitz pose for Norman Jean Roy and Patrick Demarchelier as a posse of up-and-coming attractions

Vanity Fair

 

[TheCheekyCritic]

^ I love Amber Heard's portrait. Demarchelier definitely knows his portraiture. The rest don't do a whole lot to me, though that may have something to do with the subjects. I don't feel like Amber quite belongs in this crowd, though, and not just because hers is the only black-and-white photo. Though I also like Isabel Lucas' photo, but e.g. Vanessa Hudgens' photo is awful, by comparison anyway.

 

[versustito]

OMG!!! The cover is ugly

 

[Mirik]

HQ via allstars online



Josh Brolin, Oliver Stone, Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Muligan

 

[Mirik]

via allstars online

 

[tigerrouge]

The first time I saw it, I was so captivated by Amber's face that it took me a while to realise she wasn't wearing much in that shot. She's very Vanity Fair.