LUIS FERNANDO ROMO
Updated Wednesday, January 31, 2024-21:31
2014 Annie Leibovitz solves her financial problems and buys a duplex
Culture Annie Leibovitz will portray Felipe VI and Doña Letizia for their 20th wedding anniversary
After having
portrayed Queen
Elizabeth II
in 2007 and 2016,
Annie Leibovitz
(74) faces a
new challenge
in her long career since she has been chosen to immortalize Felipe VI (56) and Queen Letizia (51).
Accustomed to dealing with
Hollywood
royalty - hers are the latest photo of
a naked John Lennon hugging a clothed
Yoko Ono
(90) on the floor
or that of
Whoopi Goldberg
(68) immersed in a bathtub full of milk - the photographer is already plotting from
his New York studio
the composition of the two portraits that will be part of the art collection located at the headquarters of the Bank of Spain.
135,000 euros have been budgeted
for this commission ,
the session will take place
at the Royal Palace
of Madrid in February and the couple will wear
gala dresses
and decorations.
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There is a before and after in Leibovitz's professional life since he declared
bankruptcy
in September 2009 for failing to pay a
debt of 24 million
dollars acquired with Arts Capital Group (ACG). Something hard to believe when
he charged $190,000 per session
and the publisher Condé Nast paid him $1.4 million annually. Living
beyond her means
and having a life as perfect as possible have been her Achilles heel, which is why in 2014 she was forced to
sell her
Greenwich Village mansion of almost 1,000 square meters - it was actually three semi-detached houses - for
28.5 million dollars.
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He found
salvation in the
Capital Colony vulture fund, which canceled the loan and since 2010
has been marketing his work
because in this way he avoided losing the copyright of his vast archive of more than a million negatives and more than 100,000 photographs. Despite what happened, she wanted
to continue living like a queen,
so in 2014 she bought a 325 m2 duplex
with views of Central Park
in The Brentmore building, where she was a door-to-door neighbor of Robert de Niro (80) and in the The classic Hollywood actress
Celeste Holm
had lived upstairs
. At the end of last year
she put it up for sale
for 8.6 million.
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Quite reluctant to talk about her private life,
after photographing
Susan Sontag
in 1988 she began a romantic relationship with the
essayist and philosopher
. They never made it public, they lived in
separate residences
and, although she was popular, her love was not confirmed until
the author
of
In America
(1999) died in 2004. While with her, Leibovitz became a
mother to Sarah
(23) in 2001 through in vitro fertilization and in 2005 she became a mother to twins
Samuelle
and Susan (18).
Susan Sontag, in a photograph from 1989.Edward HausnerGetty
The purchase of
his first camera at the age of 19
changed his destiny while he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. The definitive boost to start his career in the press was given to him by
Rolling Stone
in 1969 after offering them a report on an Israeli kibbutz. Since that moment there has been no celebrity who could resist him: the
Rolling Stones
,
Jackie and Joan Collins
,
Bill Gates
,
Penélope Cruz ... The covers of
Vanity Fair
or
Vogue
also arrived
.
The artist received the Prince of Asturias Award in 2013.GTRES
During a
visit to our country
to inaugurate her exhibition within the framework of PhotoEspaña 09 in which many photos of her lover could be seen, the American visual artist confessed to EL MUNDO that "through the snapshots I understand something more about
the relationship that I have had with Susan.
I understand photography as part of this relationship. And the same thing happens to me with
the portraits of my father.
What relationship did I have with him? Well, I am understanding it through certain intimate images." In 2013 she returned to collect the
Prince of Asturias Award
for Communication and Humanities.