Yeah I'm mostly a Klein apologist and I don't even want him for the album dd
When was the last time she worked with Craig McDean? Is it really American Life?
Yeah because they had a falling out I think?
Edit - actually that was a rumour but I think something must have happened
Reps deny fall-out between Madonna and Craig McDean, 06/13/2003
Rumour swirled this week about a conflict between
Madonna and
Craig McDean, the cutting-edge fashion photographer she hired to shoot the cover of her latest album “
American Life.”
Previous stories focused on the allegedly astronomical expense of the shoot, but the new scuttlebutt says McDean had
paid all his own expenses for the privilege of working with the pop diva only to have her turn up her nose at the finished product; she supposedly ended up cobbling something together from the few passable images on her own.However, both McDean’s and Madonna’s reps insist everything is A-OK.
“For some reason a number of things are being said about the shoot, but it’s absolutely not true,” says
Anne Kennedy, McDean’s powerhouse agent at Art + Commerce. “We’ve worked with them a lot and never really had any major dramas.”
Madonna’s rep,
Liz Rosenberg, was more vocal: “This smells of an evil queen trying to trash Craig McDean and Madonna,”
she told Fashion Buzz.
“For one thing, the record company always pays the photographer’s expenses,” she insists. “And Madonna loved the artwork. She had many meetings with Craig and he was her first choice. They worked together before on a Vanity Fair shoot and everything was completely harmonious and fine.”
For the “American Life” session, Rosenberg notes,
“There was kind of Patty Hearst/Che Guevara thing going on, reflecting Madonna’s philosophy of being a rebel.”