I had thought this was a fuss about nothing. But when you look at the images side-by-side, it's pretty obvious that
Vogue's latest cover featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen is indeed a sly homage by
Annie Leibovitz to
King Kong. In fact, the references by photographer
Annie Leibowitz to one image in particular,
identified earlier this week by a tipster to Jezebel, are unmistakeable. This First World War army recruitment poster—urging loyal Americans to destroy a "mad brute"—features a Kong-like gorilla with a right arm holding a weapon and a left gripping a virginal white beauty. It's much like the position basketball star LeBron assumes on the
Vogue cover.
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