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Annie Leibovitz Discusses Her Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair Photo Shoot

Annie Leibovitz Discusses Her Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair Photo Shoot

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‘Our whole team — and it was a team — wanted to make it a success for her, and to take her over that hill.’

At yesterday's Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, photographer Annie Leibovitz took a look back at her most famous covers: Vanity Fair's 1991 shot of pregnant Demi Moore, 1981's John Lennon and Yoko Ono Rolling Stone cover, and, of course, this July's "Call Me Caitlyn" Vanity Fair cover.

"No one has clothes on," remarked the 66-year-old photographer.

Leibovitz reflected on the Jenner shoot, calling it "a two-day session of emergence" and saying one of her goals was to make her subject happy with the final product.

"As much as we knew we were doing these photographs for a magazine and a cover. We were really, when you're in it, you are doing the photographs to make whatever she was hoping to be, you wanted that to be a success for her. That is why I'm not really a journalist, because I have empathy and I have to make those decisions while we're doing it."

"Our whole team--and it was a team--wanted to make it a success for her, and to take her over that hill," she said. "I think she has a long way, still, to go, but what she's done is pretty amazing."

Leibovitz goes on to say how Jenner eventually took control of the shoot, becoming more confident on the second day. "I sort of felt like I was being dragged behind a car, because she just took over" joked Annie. We've got a clip of Leibovitz discussing the cover below.

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