When Vogue premiered its April issue, the Annie Leibovitz photo gracing the cover immediately inflamed racial sensibilities. The photo features LeBron James and supermodel Giselle Bundchen posed in a clear homage to a xenophobic WWI army recruitment poster. Liebovitz apparently failed to explain the reference to Vogue. The media blog, Gawker, says it's “Time For Leibovitz To Confess.” Soon after the issue hit newsstands, the New York Observer ran a cartoon parody of the shot in question, that depicts Vouge editor Anna Wintour bouncing a basketball as S.I. Newhouse Jr. hangs on beside her. Observer publisher Jared Kushner bought the original artwork from the illustrator, Victor Juhasz, as a gift for Vogue editor at large André Leon Talley. “Now,” quips Woman’s Wear Daily, Talley “will own the last laugh.” New York magazine’s blog pleads, “Please God, let him hang it in his Vogue office.”
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