Close up with Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz, the 63-year-old photographer responsible for four decades of iconic magazine covers, found herself a bit puzzled a year ago. The woman who had shot a nude and pregnant Demi Moore, John Lennon five hours before he was murdered and other familiar faces, couldn’t understand why the Norton Museum of Art would want to buy 39 photos of lesser-known people, such as novelist Jerzy Kosinski and astronaut Eileen Collins?

By Phillip Valys, SouthFlorida.com

January 18, 2013