“From her earliest days at Rolling Stone, Leibovitz demonstrated a near-crippling fear of not coming back with the shot. Lloyd Ziff, a former Rolling Stone designer, remembers Leibovitz being sent out to get a simple image of the world’s oldest Coke bottle kept in some little museum. “She took 300 to 500 Polaroids of it,” he says. “I don’t care who you are or what levels of energy or patience you have,” says Carter, “Annie will wear you out. She’ll beat you. Because she’ll have more patience than you do. And she will eventually get her shot.” Arnold Schwarzenegger still jokes about flying through a blizzard in a helicopter, then nearly freezing to death for the 1997 Vanity Fair cover image of him on skis on a mountain top in Sun Valley, Idaho. ”
