Annie Leibovitz Trailing President Obama

Annie Leibovitz has been trailing President Obama all day, according to a pool report.

The Wall Street Journal's Elizabeth Williamson filed the following report:

Photographer Annie Leibovitz zipped around behind the ropes, taking photos of POTUS as he spoke; was accidentally bodychecked (no injury!) by one of our corps. She's been on POTUS all day, took pix of him entering car to DGA luncheon motorcade at WH earlier today; she stayed behind on WH lawn. No information forthcoming thus far on what her assignment is.

Leibovitz has photographed Obama before: she followed him on the campaign trail last spring, and she did a series of portraits on the Obama administration for the March issue of Vanity Fair. Leibovitz also photographed First Lady Michelle Obama for the March cover of Vogue.

Leibovitz recently won more time to repay a $24 million loan to Art Capital Group, restructuring the deal to regain control of her assets.

Comments

[flamflurm]

04:21 AM on 10/05/2009

She smells bailout

[jordan327]

08:04 PM on 10/02/2009

Hope she got a good shot of that "you lost the olympics" moment.

[littleolwinemakerme]

11:24 PM on 10/03/2009

Thought it was more like "Rio won the Olympics". Please get off your hate trip.

[vinny]

12:19 AM on 10/04/2009

public option goes down while president running down favors for mayor daley...

nuff said...

[2008FedUP]

03:35 PM on 10/02/2009

It's great we are seeing the REAL shots of the Rethuglican party. So glad the blinds have been lifted and we can now see what has been really going on in the "houses". Thanks Pres. Obama.

[tfred]

12:53 PM on 10/02/2009

Will she end up owning the photos of Prez Obama? Or, because he IS the prez will some kind of roalty deal be worked out. It's not fair is she makes millions off of his likeness.

[cartunes]

10:59 AM on 10/02/2009

INFORMATION ON HER ASSIGNMENT : PROPAGANDA, And Obama is going to payoff her debt like he paid off Hillary's.

[ZTB]

12:10 PM on 10/02/2009

leave it to the tro// s to make some photos into propaganda.
get a life.

[BlueRoseofTexas]

12:40 PM on 10/02/2009

What nonsense you write.

[Harpseal60]

10:01 AM on 10/02/2009

She is so talented. I can't to see the photos she gets of him.

[tlboyles1]

09:18 AM on 10/02/2009

How can an artist be $24 Million in debt?

[Emiley Ellington]

11:10 AM on 10/02/2009

Because Annie's long time partner (yes a woman) died and left her, her estate. But because they have no legal rights or protection under the gov't because they were a same-sex couple she was hit with a huge tax bill. It has nothing to do with her being bad at finances.

[MrLeeGreaterHongKong]

11:54 AM on 10/02/2009

That's awful! Tyrants!

[LeroyJenkins]

11:59 AM on 10/02/2009

that has been debunked

look it up

she went in over her head with bad realestate

[ZTB]

12:11 PM on 10/02/2009

artists are notoriously known for lack of business sense.

[redkim]

08:52 AM on 10/02/2009

Seriously, why is this even a story?

[CRA1]

10:12 AM on 10/02/2009

Thank you! No story here let's move on!

[ladyrefined2000]

05:47 PM on 10/04/2009

she is creepy and sooooooooooooo over

[Imzadi]

08:12 AM on 10/02/2009

What is with this site's fascination with her?!?!?!?

[happycat]

08:27 AM on 10/02/2009

It certainly cannot be her beauty, that is for sure.

[NancyCinNY]

08:40 AM on 10/02/2009

Why is her appearance relevant? Either she is a skilled photographer or not (and she is, even if she's a no-nothing when it comes to handling her personal finances)

[Mij13]

07:33 AM on 10/02/2009

It sounded interesting at first. But, of course it's not.

[oonamanoona]

09:05 AM on 10/02/2009

LOL Thanks for my first laugh of the day!

[bluemike]

07:17 AM on 10/02/2009

YIPS!!! Batman.

[B3ritney]

06:15 AM on 10/02/2009

She's begging for "change".

[rain33]

06:58 AM on 10/02/2009

hahaha!

[oonamanoona]

09:06 AM on 10/02/2009

Sharp! =D

[thehuff]

04:31 AM on 10/02/2009

Judging by the comments on this thread it would appear that the People magazine subscribers are now reading HP.

[Clare53]

04:51 PM on 10/02/2009

HP turned into People a long time ago, which attracted People/En@urier type comments.

[LeroyJenkins]

03:56 AM on 10/02/2009

She is a good candidate for "Faces of Meth 2010"

[PaiaGirl]

04:03 AM on 10/02/2009

Ah...that explains how she got 24 million dollars in debt!

[WriterGuy]

11:50 AM on 10/02/2009

Maybe if she were 25, you'd be right. But she's 60 years old (in fact, today's her birthday, according to Wikipedia). Perhaps in Hollywood, 60-year-olds don't have lines on their faces, but in the rest of the world they (and we) do.

[Forester]

03:50 PM on 10/02/2009

Too many cibachrome fumes.

[Igniter]

03:44 AM on 10/02/2009

Hey Huff Post, report serious news.