Annie Leibovitz Has LeBron James And Gisele Bundchen In King Kong Mode
VOGUE’S current cover features US basketball player LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen.
The picture is by Annie Leibovitz, the one who snapped the Queen.
It’s a homage to King Kong.
The poster is from the First World War, it picures a German as a black baboon.
Vogue says the image celebrates “athleticism”. Leibovitz hasn’t commented.
March 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
The story behind this image and its history is well documented in Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen’s Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality. A discussion of the VOGUE cover and related issues is found on their Stereotype & Society website: http://stereotypeandsociety.typepad.com