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Interesting controversy about a cover done by Annie Leibovitz hit the news today.  For the photography student it is interesting how the poetry of subject pose, expression, attitude plays to cause such controversy.  Also, the context of history plays here in the interpretation of this photo.  When we view photos we bring a vast history of images to bear on the interpretation of the photograph.  Do you think this was a natural accident or was Leibovitz actually producing a King Kong image?  Take look at the details of their dress and and expression and interaction, what does it mean?

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they’re just plain emasculated.