I always thought she was overrated. She wasn’t Cecil Beaton!
Well she can get some of her rich friends to put her up.
I agree. Any competent portrait photographer who had the best equipment and access to celebrities could have taken pictures of equal or better quality. In my opinion, Leibovitz' use of props is excessive and sometimes ridiculous. In fact, they are more like crutches. The face of a great man should speak for itself. Perhaps that says says something about her subjects: Most of them are not great--They're just famous.
I’m sure I’ll get flamed for this, but who gives a rat’s:
Photography is not art. It is a mechanical means of capturing an image.
Now, some of the manipulations that are done with Photoshop to the photos certainly have some artistic value to them, but taking a picture of someone ain’t the same as taking a blank canvas/paper and creating an image...flame away...