Annie Leibovitz joins up with Ikea for ‘dream project’ about family life
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’
August 2022
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
September 2019
Observer book of the week
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus
Susan Sontag’s rise from gawky swot to opinion leader is incisively charted
March 2019
Annie Leibovitz on the shots that made her
She captured America’s most tumultuous moments and its biggest stars. The great photographer relives her Rolling Stone years – and the time she set fire to Patti Smith
October 2018
Contemporary photography special
The big picture: Andy Warhol and Diana Vreeland in New York in 1976
Annie Leibovitz captures Warhol’s awkwardness and the former Vogue editor’s trademark composure
May 2017
Observer New Review Q&A
Jann Wenner: ‘Hunter S Thompson let his talent slip’
As Rolling Stone turns 50, its co-founder talks about working with the great American writers, interviewing John Lennon, and the magazine’s biggest mistake
March 2017
So Theresa May thinks she just needs to look the part…
David Mitchell
The prime minister probably wanted her photoshoot for US Vogue to show us ‘who she really is’
January 2017
Film blog
Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue: the year Amy Adams missed out on an Oscar
Poor Amy Adams – this year the acclaimed star of Nocturnal Animals and Arrival failed to get a nomination. Nobody expected it, least of all Vanity Fair
June 2016
Stylewatch
The Queen: Vanity Fair cover star – stylewatch
The Queen is on the cover of the summer issue of Vanity Fair, double-collaring, mixing blues and showing a pop of Warholian pink. Who knew she was so fashion-forward?
April 2016
Queen photographed with youngest royals to mark 90th birthday
Family portrait shot by Annie Leibovitz shows first nonagenarian monarch surrounded by her five great-grandchildren and two youngest grandchildren
March 2016
Annie Leibovitz: 'I was so moved because Malala is smiling'
Leibovitz photographed the Nobel Peace prize winner in her classroom in Birmingham for a new exhibition, which opened in San Francisco on Tuesday
February 2016
Shortcuts
Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue: four fashion questions
The magazine’s annual Hollywood edition is here, with a refreshing Annie Leibovitz tableau of actors aged from 21 to 78 on the cover. What questions does it raise about fashion in 2016?
January 2016
Annie Leibovitz: latest show explores women as 'whole human beings'
Revered photographer’s new exhibition focuses on women of note, from Lupita Nyong’o to Aung San Suu Kyi
Annie Leibovitz 'trying hard' for photo session with Angela Merkel
Photographer’s new exhibition Women opens at London’s Hydraulic Power Station
Art Weekly newsletter
The Sistine Chapel in a council house – the week in art
Meet the outsider artists who have transformed their homes into masterpieces, and see the super slides that are about to take over the art world. Plus the Manchester street scene that went viral and more
December 2015
Art Weekly newsletter
A feminist Pirelli calendar and the rise of Donald Dump – the week in art
Eyewitness
Eyewitness: Serena Williams in the Pirelli calendar
Photographer Annie Leibovitz on the Pirelli calendar – video
Pirelli calendar goes with less steam and more jokes for 2016
