US Vogue ‘Digital Cover’ October 2024 : Kamala Harris by Annie Leibovitz

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

Doug Emhoff, her husband on a Vogue cover would make her message stronger Lamo, can she not get GQ or Sports Illustrated or TIME magazine?

 

[MulletProof]

^ kind of just came for your avatar 😆

One quick trip around the vintage magazines area will teach you that Vogue being shamelessly involved in political propaganda is nothing new.. the issues from 1945-1965 are wild.. very ‘we’re in Berlin, sure it’s been bombed to the ground but look at the very clean and progressive American side, UNLIKE the Russian side’.. and don’t get me started on the ‘great’ things coming out of the invasion of Afghanistan like 3 months into it. And of course, good ol’ Rose of the Desert!. Anna is just continuing an ancient tradition of influencing the minds of women through the one vocabulary that might ‘truly’ capture their attention: clothes and other trivialities. Maybe it’s time to drop it but at this point, everyone’s picked up on that template (food influencers, singers, you name it, all telling you how to vote..), so maybe it comes down to the consumers’ capacity and sense of responsibility to navigate all the material..

 

[vogue22]

The light on her face is so different from the rest of the picture that you would think this is a bad collage made on the cover challenge thread.

 

[JohannesL]

Terrible styling again. She had better style before marrying Emhoff and the slip dress with Montel Williams comes to mind. So at least put some effort to make her more authentic when it comes to styling. Overall, iy is not that different from "ROSE of the desert" though.

 

[Deleted member 45369]

Considering the amount of “enthusiasm” for her, a digital cover is about right. A feature inside the current issue would actually be more apropos.

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

Because of Gaby's political stand, she doesn't work for Vogue anymore
So this time, this shoot was styled by Leslie Fremar, a caucasian female stylist, and also by a caucasian female photographer
Unlike last time, an African photographer and an African stylist

 

[BlueRuin]

Because of Gaby's political stand, she doesn't work for Vogue anymore
So this time, this shoot was styled by Leslie Fremar, a caucasian female stylist, and also by a caucasian female photographer
Unlike last time, an African photographer and an African stylist

African American. If you’re going to label everyone based on race, at least get it right.

 

[BlueRuin]

A digital cover is the worst, meaningless possible way to inject a magazine into politics. It's a lukewarm statement....at best!

Ok so are you saying a magazine shouldn’t inject itself into politics but if it does it should be print so as to make even more of a statement?

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

Because of Gaby's political stand, she doesn't work for Vogue anymore
So this time, this shoot was styled by Leslie Fremar, a caucasian female stylist, and also by a caucasian female photographer
Unlike last time, an African photographer and an African stylist

African American. If you’re going to label everyone based on race, at least get it right.

That's one bitchy tone~ But why didn't you mention the need to properly address Caucasian (European) Americans?
If you're going to be so politically correct, at least do it right to everyone

 

[BlueRuin]

That's one bitchy tone~ But why didn't you mention the need to properly address Caucasian Americans?
If you're going to be so politically correct, at least do it right to everyone

Caucasian American is in fact not a politically correct term.

 

[blueorchid]

The preferred term is "white American"... anyway.... this is why we can't have nice things.

Unrelated. I still don't think that digital covers should get their own threads. Why make a topic for an Instagram post, basically? It just seems like a waste of gigabytes and pixels.

 

[Phuel]

“The Candidate for Our Times” indeed: From one phoney (Anna) to another phoney (Kamala) LMFAO

Phoniness and overly-photochopped aside, she looks less contrived and more appropriately, even dignifiedly, styled and curated on this “cover” than the one where she’s wearing Chuck’s. I’ll keep my disdain of her to myself, and just say that the horrid wallpaper behind her alongside the matte gold of the masthead is giving depressing, moldy basement Christmas vibes.

 

[KoV]

Leslie Fremar is Canadian, I’m pretty sure.

Anyway, the slick little hints at a political opinion are so tiresome/weak, to me. I miss when people were just upfront with their takes. FatKarl, where ya at? 🤭

 

[MModa]

I happen to like this a whole lot better than the Billie Eilish cover. In terms of political figures on the cover of Vogue, nothing seems to compare to Michelle Obama for December 2016 - or even the Hilary Clinton cover. Yet the colours here are lovely, love the richness of everything, and it's better than Kamala's first cover which felt... cheesy.

Personally, I thought the cover with Harris wearing sneakers was cheesy. However, I found the second cover with her wearing the light blue suit very beautiful. I still love it.

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

Honestly, I wasn't trying to start a war; I just find it unusual, despite the backlash from Annie's photographs with Ketanji Brown Jackson, they went with Annie again. I am sure apart from Tyler, there are other names around

Annie Leibovitz proves yet again: she can’t photograph Black women

Annie Leibovitz proves yet again: she can’t photograph Black women | Tayo Bero

Leibovitz’s photographs are what happens when Blackness is seen through a white gaze incapable of capturing its true beauty

www.theguardian.com

 

[tjasmine]

Kamala is beautiful, and I don't think this cover does her justice, sadly.

 

[KoV]

In my opinion the idea that Annie can’t or isn’t successful at photographing black people is ridiculous. She has decades of experience producing memorable, impactful portraits of people with all different skin tones. The criteria for some of the “critics” I’ve seen seems to be “did she make the person look glamorous and did she use lighting tricks to effectively lighten their skin” (dare I say the author of the above linked article seems to be a fan of this style, based on their photo of themselves) and if the answer is no, it’s deemed unsuccessful.

 

[BlueRuin]

Honestly, I wasn't trying to start a war; I just find it unusual, despite the backlash from Annie's photographs with Ketanji Brown Jackson, they went with Annie again. I am sure apart from Tyler, there are other names around

Annie Leibovitz proves yet again: she can’t photograph Black women

Annie Leibovitz proves yet again: she can’t photograph Black women | Tayo Bero

Leibovitz’s photographs are what happens when Blackness is seen through a white gaze incapable of capturing its true beauty

www.theguardian.com

On this I agree with you. Her cover with Simone Biles was particularly horrendous.

However I think Annie is good at capturing these behind the scenes moments and elevates them so in that regard I think she did a good job.

In my opinion the idea that Annie can’t or isn’t successful at photographing black people is ridiculous. She has decades of experience producing memorable, impactful portraits of people with all different skin tones. The criteria for some of the “critics” I’ve seen seems to be “did she make the person look glamorous and did she use lighting tricks to effectively lighten their skin” (dare I say the author of the above linked article seems to be a fan of this style, based on their photo of themselves) and if the answer is no, it’s deemed unsuccessful.

its her lighting and coloring of her images in recent times that are not flattering to black talent. She makes them either gray and lifeless or green and sickly.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

Sometimes

African American. If you’re going to label everyone based on race, at least get it right.

I almost commented on it then realized that I had complained about way too many of the person's posts and chose to stop viewing them.

 

[tigerrouge]

When it comes to Annie, it might be an interesting experiment for people to go through the more recent years of her work, and to identify when they think she last took a decent portrait of anyone.

The exacting effort that used to go into photographers lighting their shoots has been discarded as a waste of time - people think that digital post-processing can compensate for all of that.