Originally Posted by Martian

Perhaps if they advertised this fact a little more, Vogue would have more male readers. Y'know, for the articles.

Also, I agree with ngdawg. Given the subjects and the medium, the photographer's options were fairly limited from a compositional standpoint. I don't know who Annie Liebovitz is, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that part of her motivation behind the shot stems simply from the fact that it's difficult to find a shot that catches the disparate personalities of her two subjects effectively.