Leibowitz Will Shoot the Queen
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LONDON (AP) – Annie Leibovitz will take the official photograph for Elizabeth II’s state visit to Ameirca, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.
The photograph will be shot at the palace in the next few days. It will be released the day before Elizabeth leaves for a six-day visit to America in early May, the palace said.
Ms. Leibovitz said the portrait would be “very formal and painterly” and that she was in negotiation with the palace over what the queen would wear.
“I feel like I’m a documentarian and want to take a very simple portrait,” Ms. Leibovitz said in the palace’s portrait room, which featured photographs of the queen riding horseback with President Reagan and ballroom dancing with President Ford.
Ms. Leibovitz was among some 300 guests invited to the palace for a reception for Americans working in Britain. Supermodel Jerry Hall, actor Don Johnson and American Ambassador Robert Tuttle also attended.
It will be Elizabeth’s fourth state visit to America, coming 50 years after her first one, when she was a guest of President Eisenhower.
Buckingham Palace has said the monarch and her husband, Philip, would visit America from May 3 to May 8.
Elizzbeth will be in Virginia on May 3-4 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English settlement in the New World. She is scheduled to attend the Kentucky Derby on May 5 and will then travel to Washington to meet President Bush and his wife, Laura.
Ms. Leibovitz, 57, is perhaps best known for her photograph of a naked John Lennon hugging a fully clothed Yoko Ono. The picture, for Rolling Stone magazine, was taken just hours before Lennon was killed in New York City in 1980.
