Photo Editor: 'You Point A Camera at Anybody and They Start to Take Their Clothes Off'

Poor Miley Cyrus. What was she thinking, posing topless for Vanity Fair? We asked Rob Haggart, who writes the spot-on A Photo Editor blog (and also worked as director of photography for Men’s Journal and Outside, for his thoughts.

When big name photographers (read: Annie Leibowitz) shoot pictures for big name magazines (read: Vanity Fair), “the subjects let [the photographers] do whatever they want… and it’s a mistake,” he said. “Nobody say no [to the photographers] and they aren’t making good pictures.”

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