Brooklyn Museum retrospective

In 2007, a major retrospective of Leibovitz's work was held at the Brooklyn Museum.[21] The retrospective was based on her book, Annie Leibovitz:

A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 and included many of her professional (celebrity) photographs and numerous personal photographs of her family, children,

and partner Susan Sontag. This show, which was expanded to include three official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, then went on the road for seven stops.

It was on display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from October 2007 to January 2008 and at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in

San Francisco from March 2008 to May 2008. In February 2009, the exhibition was moved to Berlin, Germany.

The show included 200 photographs

This exhibition and her talk focused on her personal photographs and life.

Queen Elizabeth controversy

In 2007, the BBC misrepresented Leibovitz's portrait shooting of Queen Elizabeth II to take the Queen's official picture for her state visit to Virginia.

This was filmed for the BBC documentary A Year with the Queen. A promotional trailer for the film showed the Queen reacting angrily to Leibovitz's

suggestion ("less dressy") that she remove her tiara, then a scene of the Queen walking down a corridor, telling an aide "I'm not changing anything.

I've had enough dressing like this, thank you very much."[26] The BBC later apologized and admitted that the sequence of events had been misrepresented,

as the Queen was in fact walking to the sitting in the second scene.[27] This led to a BBC scandal and a shake-up of ethics training. However a 2015 London Times article contradicts this story.

It stated that the Queen was both incredulous at being asked to remove her crown as "no-one tells her what to do" and insulted as the item was only a tiara.

Miley Cyrus photoshoot controversy

On April 25, 2008, Entertainment Tonight reported that 15-year-old Miley Cyrus had posed topless for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair.

The photograph and subsequently released behind-the-scenes photographs show Cyrus topless, her bare back exposed but her front covered with a bedsheet.

The photo was taken by Leibovitz.[31] The full photograph was published with an accompanying story on The New York Times' website on April 27, 2008.

On April 29, 2008, The New York Times clarified: though the pictures left an impression that she was bare-breasted, Cyrus was wrapped in a bedsheet and was actually not topless.

Some parents expressed outrage at the nature of the photograph, which a Disney spokesperson described as "a situation [that] was created to deliberately

manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines".[32] In response to the Internet circulation of the photo and ensuing media attention, Cyrus released

a statement of apology on April 27: "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story,

I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about."[32] Leibovitz also released a

statement saying: "I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted.... The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful."