Leibovitz: Miley Pic Ain't Smutty!

Despite getting blasted by the Mouse for "deliberately manipulating a 15-year-old," Annie Leibovitz is standing by her bareback shot of Miley Cyrus.


VF pooh-bah Graydon Carter can't be too torn up about it either -- he let her right into his celebriteria, The Waverly Inn, last night in NYC.



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16. The picture looks fine to me.... (Do these blow up shoes make my butt look FAT??)

Posted at 11:59AM on May 2nd 2008 by Chubo De Clown

17. So were all calling It's child pornography, "ART" now?

Posted at 12:01PM on May 2nd 2008 by TMZ FAN

18. Don't any of you who say it's artistic get it? This is a CHILD. If it were an adult, it would be artistic. For a child, this is kiddie porn, plain and simple. Why in the world would normal people want to see a CHILD naked?

Posted at 12:02PM on May 2nd 2008 by TMZ SUCKS~No clue why I still read it.

19. Oh please, the whole thing is just to get more publicity. Miley and her crew are saying that Vanity Fair set this all up just to sell magazines, but if she hadn't complained about the whole thing, no one would have known. Now that she's gone and whined about it, the magazine will be flying off the rack. This whole thing is pathetic, there is nothing wrong with the pictures and if someone thought there was a problem, then someone should have said something then, not now. Annie Leibowitz is an artist who has nothing to prove, why would she go out of her way to land herself in controversy?

Posted at 11:34PM on May 2nd 2008 by chill pills all around

20. At any time, Miley and her pimps/parents could have said no and refused to do the pics. There is definitely something abnormal and unhealthy about the relationship between Miley and her father.

Posted at 1:17PM on May 2nd 2008 by self

21. Bad decision by the parents for allowing this to happen to their 15 year old daughter. Billy Ray has no career and anything might be fine for him just to get in the limelight for himself. Very bad decision!! Annie is what Annie is, she doesn't care it's not her kid.

Posted at 12:04PM on May 2nd 2008 by Lenn K.

22. Lets move on TMZ , Its time to report on something else . Enough all ready . Let it go . move on , its FRIDAY , TGIF !!!!

Posted at 12:06PM on May 2nd 2008 by Stopthemaddness

23. Disney has been sexualizing little girls for 50 years .... who are they kidding !

Posted at 12:10PM on May 2nd 2008 by pennwood

24. The pictures are not "smutty" but are not in keeping with the marketable target group that generates Mouse moola. How many 6 to 14 year olds understand "art photos"....not many at all....It's the parents and caretakers of these kids who find the photos of Miley not in keeping with the "wholesome" image....but sugggestive of what they don't want their kids to become.

I understand the "artist" and her point of view but to expect "normal, average" people to "feel" the same way she does is asking way too much..especially in Middle Class Middle America....


Posted at 12:10PM on May 2nd 2008 by chicken stripper

25. Umm...kiddie porn? NOT! It is a suggestive photo, definately. The photos in question are much milder than the photos that have been all over the web of Miley and her firends.

This entire fiasco is another publicity stunt manufactured to make Disney/Vanity Fair/Miley more money.

Posted at 12:12PM on May 2nd 2008 by pie

26. "Lenn K" I agree 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:12PM on May 2nd 2008 by gagal

27. It wasn't smutty. It's a kid's bare back. Whoop tee damn doo. Sure, teen-age boys with raging hormones might get excited, but a hershey bar gets them excited as well. Anyone who finds this tittilating is a damn pervert who would find the fact that she's a girl to be a turn on. This girl hasn't done anything to warrant TMZ's quest to destroy her, other than be successful in a business that Harvey and the losers at TMZ weren't.

Posted at 12:13PM on May 2nd 2008 by TMZhires13yearolds

28. "8. leibo looks like a lesbo. Shes probaly hot for miley

Posted at 11:52AM on May 2nd 2008 by ted"

Brilliant observation Ted, Leibovitz is well known as a Lesbian and she has a few children of her own so I'm positive she is not "hot for miley". Grow up moron.

Posted at 12:14PM on May 2nd 2008 by Ted is a moron

29. I found the pics of Mily & her dad to be a little creepy. How many girls pose like THAT with their dads? No one I know, that's for sure!

Posted at 12:17PM on May 2nd 2008 by Randi

30. Could you imagine Queen Elizabeth's photo shoot, shot in the same fashion?

Which would have more of the "Ew!" factor?

Posted at 12:43PM on May 2nd 2008 by Walt

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