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The American photographer Annie Leibovitz has long been known for finding innovative ways to create engaging photographs of her portrait subjects, often in intimate settings intended to convey something of the character of her sitters. Here, she captures the choreographer-dancer David Parsons during a shoot carried out in 1991 that began at her downtown studio with photographs like this one. Later in the day, she suggested that they move to the Chrysler Building, where she depicted Parsons atop the building, almost naked, stretched out belly down on a gargoyle gleaming in the setting sun. Both approaches seem intended to say something about the risk-taking personality of both the photographer and her subject.


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