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. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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

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

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

20. 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

21. 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

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

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

23. 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

24. "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

25. 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

26. i just looked at the picture. it is really beautiful as well as artistic. it reminds me of the classical era of art if it could have been captured by photograph instead of sculpture.

anyone who thinks it is sexual is MESSED UP. granted, she could have had her back covered up a little more. but it is in no way inapropriate or smutty.

Posted at 12:28PM on May 2nd 2008 by fathead

27. The pic with the Father is worse.

Posted at 12:35PM on May 2nd 2008 by Marla

28. While I don't think it's kiddie "porn", I think the pic is totally inappropriate for her age and the image she's been trying to portray. Artistic? Give me a break. Call it what it is please...a publicity stunt. Everyone involved gets (more) instant recognition (good/bad) and makes $ off of it. I'll never believe that Miley was tricked into this. Dad was there. Blame him.

The shot with Dad is just weird and kinda creepy. Teenage girls don't pose like that with their father! That's more of a pic you'd expect to see with a gf/bf, husband/wife. Seriously, it's time for him to step out of the spotlight and be a father and not a best friend. He had his 15 min and his one hit wonder years ago.

Posted at 12:37PM on May 2nd 2008 by JM

29. I don't see anything wrong with the pics at all

Posted at 12:39PM on May 2nd 2008 by Adrienne

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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