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I’m not saying you’ll never see a bad picture by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, but I’m pretty sure you’ll never see a naïve one, certainly not in the pages of Vogue or Vanity Fair. So just now people are talking about her cover for the April Vogue: a bellowing LeBron James, basketball superstar, one arm around the waist of a delighted Gisele Bundchen, supermodel. “She looks like she’s on her way to something fashionable and exciting,” comments essayist Jemele Hill at ESPN.com. “He looks like he’s on his way to a pickup game for serial killers.” And Hill notes that the blogosphere has been commenting on the “striking resemblance to the racially charged image of King Kong enveloping his very fair-skinned lady love interest.”
Liebovitz, by the way, took the family picture Obama used on his Christmas card not long ago. And while we’re on the subject, where would Obama be politically if he had a white wife? Would the black vote still solidly support him? Would he still be the first black presidential candidate that millions of whites could imagine voting for?
