A story about provacative pictures of 15-year old singing/acting superstar Miley Cyrus told me Annie Liebovitz took the pictures.
Quick wiki search of Annie Liebovitz taught me that she took pictures of someone on one of the Chrysler Building gargoyles, which she took while perched on one of the others.
Then I fing out gargoyles is not just a creature. It's a creature on a building used to direct water away from the buildng, through the mouth. If it's just ornamental, they say it's more acurately termed a grotesque.
Annie Liebovitz also took the last pictures of John Lennon. Five hours before he was killed, she shot the picture of a naked John Lennon curled up against a clothed Yoko Ono.
On December 8, 1980, Leibovitz had a photo shoot with John Lennon for the Rolling Stone magazine, promising him he would make the cover of Rolling Stone.[3] After she had initially tried to get a picture with just Lennon alone (she would recall that, "nobody wanted [Ono] on the cover".[4]), Lennon insisted that both him and Yoko Ono be on the cover. Leibovitz then tried to recreate the kissing scene from the Double Fantasy album cover, a picture that she loved.[4] "What is interesting is she said she'd take her top off and I said, 'Leave everything on' ... not really preconceiving the picture at all. Then he curled up next to her and it was very, very strong. You couldn't help but feel that she was cold and he looked like he was clinging on to her[5]... I shot some test Polaroids first and when I showed them to John and Yoko, John said, 'You've captured our relationship exactly. Promise me it'll be on the cover'. I looked him in the eye and we shook on it." She was the last person to professionally photograph John Lennon - he was shot and killed five hours later.
All this led me to think it would be nice to feature John Lennon in today's song of the day.
Lyrics here.
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