Julia Gets Wise with Annie Leibovitz
12/3/202559 min
In this episode of Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down with visionary 76-year-old photographer Annie Leibovitz for a conversation about ambition, aging and the strange magic of being truly seen: both on camera, and in life. They dig into Annie’s relentless eye for detail and how motherhood rewired her creative instincts. Plus Julia speaks with her 91-year-old mom, Judy, about family photos and why smiling for the camera is harder than it looks.
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First 90 secondsJudith Bowles· Guest0:02
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus· Host0:04
As I've mentioned on this, here, podcast, we lost our home of 31 years and everything in it in the Pacific Palisades fire earlier this year. And, uh, if you listened to the last episode of Wiser Than Me, in that episode, I warned that I might be talking to you, dearest listener, about that fire and the loss that came with it a lot this season. And, um, well, I'm a woman of my word, so here you go. We had a rough plan of evacuation from that house. The most important thing to get out was our photos. And unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to put that plan into effect, and all the photos were lost. And I have to say, we had more than just a few photos. In fact, um, we had, Lord help us, more than 90 big photo albums that were perfectly sorted and identified and organized by me. Every picture ever taken of our kids and also crazy important stuff like our parents' baby pictures and the only pictures that existed of my parents' wedding and a photo of my father-in-law playing high school football in a leather helmet in 1927.