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Leibovitz to snap the Queen
28/03/2007 11:50 - (SA)
London - Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz will take the official photograph for Queen Elizabeth II's state visit to the United States, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday.
The photograph will be shot at the palace sometime in the next few days. It will be released the day before the queen leaves for a six-day visit to the United States in early May, the palace said.
"To have this opportunity to be in this palace, to be with this queen who has lived all these years, I feel like it's a documentation and want to take a very simple portrait," Leibovitz said at Buckingham Palace, where a reception for Americans working in Britain was held.
The queen asked how preparations for the photo shoot were going, Leibovitz said.
"She asked me if I'd found a room," Leibovitz said. "I said, 'I think you've got enough.'"
The monarch's trip will be her fourth state visit to the United States. It comes 50 years after her first visit, when she was a guest of President Dwight D Eisenhower.
The queen will be in Virginia to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
The Queen is also scheduled to attend the Kentucky Derby and will then to travel to Washington to meet US President George W Bush and his wife, Laura.
Leibovitz's is probably best known for her photograph of a naked John Lennon, hugging a fully clothed Yoko Ono. The picture, for Rolling Stone magazine, was taken just hours before Lennon was killed in New York in 1980.
- AP
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