Wow! I'm not one to defend Leibovitz and her terrible post production these days, but the flippant way that interviewer dismisses Annie's work with black women as "horrifying" is quite shocking. I wonder how Simone Biles, Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong'o feel about their portraits being called "horrifying" by the internet? She even implied that Zendaya's shoot was terrible, was she expecting Law to join her in criticising his celebrity client's latest Vogue cover which I'm sure she's probably happy with?
I get that Leibovitz's use of blue and green tinted filters isn't for everyone and I'm all for critiquing fashion photography and its techniques and aesthetics, we do it here on tFS all the time, but this Gen Z notion that Leibovitz should not be 'allowed' to shoot black subjects denies the subjects any kind of agency, and ignores her decades long career of shooting legendary black subjects across a range of fields. Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jordan, Venus and Serena Williams, Mary J Blige, Jessye Norman etc etc. I guess these people should not have trusted her and the powers that be (and the internet, had it existed) should not have 'allowed' her to photograph them.
Also, the notion that "AnNie LEiBOVItZ dOESN't KnOW hOw To phOtOgRaph bLAcK WomEn" is completely subjective. Where one person sees the work as "horrifying", another will see it as beautiful. That's the beauty of art.
