Annie Leibovitz?s UK agent has criticised elements of the press for its sensationalist coverage of the photographer?s portrait session with The Queen following the BBC?s TV editing mix-up.<\/p>\n
Neil Burgess, the founder of NB Pictures, said he was already ?pretty angry? at the portrayal of Liebovitz as depicted in the trailer for the upcoming documentary.<\/p>\n
However, he told Amateur Photographer<\/i> magazine that his fury was further intensified by subsequent newspaper coverage of the furore.<\/p>\n
Though Leibovitz has so far maintained a ?dignified silence? on the matter, Burgess, the UK representative of the American?s picture agency Contact Press Images, told us: ?I was pretty angry about Annie being slagged off, but mostly about the state of our press where this so-called story made the front page of the Sun<\/i> [yesterday] and the Daily Mail<\/i> [today].? <\/p>\n
The Mail<\/i> focused on the BBC’s apology to The Queen.<\/p>\n
Burgess also condemned makers of such TV programmes for appearing to treat the recording of history as ?some sort of game show?.<\/p>\n
The BBC and production company RDF are understood to have apologised to both The Queen and Annie Leibovitz for the editing blunder.<\/p>\n
As we reported earlier, BBC One?s controller said he has no plans to resign over the matter.<\/p>\n
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