A profile of the celebrated American photographer Annie Leibovitz, following her at work in New York, Los Angeles and Paris and profiling two decades of popular culture and the cult of the celebrity through her camera lens. Interviewees include Mick Jagger, Hunter S Thompson, Demi Moore, Tina Brown and Jann Wenner.
Director – Rebecca Frayn
Presenter/Editor – Melvyn Bragg
Middlemarch Films for LWT
Contender for an International EMMY Best Single Documentary award 1994.
“An excellent account.”
Sunday Times
“This documentary looks good. It completely defines 'celebrity' in the 90's.”
The Guardian
“A textbook chronicle of American popular culture over the past 20 years...an uncharacteristically sceptical South Bank Show.”
The Independent
“Very watchable.”
Time Out