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Under the terms of the debt takeover, Colony Capital will help Leibovitz market her photographs, the Financial Times reported.

Buried in today’s reports about another lawsuit against Annie Leibovitz is the shocking fact that her debt has ballooned to $40 million. In other words, Leibovitz has gone from being waist deep in the jaws of a shark to neck deep. It will be a miracle if she manages to pull herself out without losing her image archive.

Link: PDNPulse: What Happens When the Annie Leibovitz Debt Bubble Bursts?

Brunswick Capital Partners has filed a suit against her in New York State Supreme Court, saying that she owes the firm several hundred thousand dollars in fees for its recent role in locating investors who have helped her restructure her debt, Reuters reported.

Link: More Legal Woes for Annie Leibovitz – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com

Link: Art Capital Dropping Lawsuit Against Annie Leibovitz:

A statement issued Friday by both parties said Leibovitz has bought back control of her physical property—presumably including her two houses—and copyrights. Previously, Art Capital had said it had the right to sell Leibovitz’s homes and photo archive under the terms of the loan.

Photography’s debt to Annie Leibovitz | Art and design | guardian.co.uk:

As celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz’s financial woes threaten to eclipse her career, it’s important to remember how much we owe to her pioneering work

PDNPulse: Annie Leibovitz Sued over Lavazza Coffee Campaign:

Pizzetti said in the lawsuit he doesn’t think Leibovitz traveled to Italy for the campaign at all, according to the Bloomberg story.

The campaign was panned by other photographers. Mike Johnston on The Online Photographer called one of Leibovitz’s Lavazzo pictures “The Worst Photograph Ever Made.”

Annie Leibovitz Sued Over Loan Payments – PDN

Last fall, Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, borrowed $5 million from a company called Art Capital Group. In December, she borrowed $10.5 million more from the same firm. As collateral, among other items, she used town houses she owns in Greenwich Village, a country house, and something else: the rights to all of her photographs.

Check it out here. Via A Photo Editor

Mike Johnston, on his site The Online Photographer, has written a critique of what he calls “The Worst Photograph Ever Made.” It’s an image shot by Annie Leibovitz for the 2009 Lavazza espresso calendar. How bad is it? We’ll let the picture speak for itself:

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“You can’t just say no to Annie.” That was part of the explanation given by 15-year-old superstar Miley Cyrus after photographs were made of her “backless” and clutching a blanket by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair. (A VF behind-the-scenes shot is above.) “I think it’s really artsy,” she told the magazine at the time. “It wasn’t in a skanky way.”

But by yesterday, Cyrus was backtracking. “I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” she said in a publicist’s statement. She further criticizes the magazine in a People article, as the more financially minded press mulls over the fallout  expected to hit Cyrus’s Hanna Montana phenomenon and its parent company, Disney.

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