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Over the last few years, acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz has partnered with Disney to create stunningly colorful pictures of celebrities posing as Disney characters from classic animated Disney films.
Yesterday more photographs from this series were released, featuring a new batch of celebrities with a new set of familiar Disney scenes. Inspired by the new release below, we look back at all of the photographs Leibovitz has produced for the Disney Dream Portrait series, followed by a few behind-the-scenes images from the photoshoots. The photos below begin with the most recent set and work their way backward, in no particular order.
(You can click each image to enlarge and view in high-resolution.)
Disney Dream Portraits by Annie Leibovitz
Jessica Chastain as Merida from “Brave”
“Where your destiny awaits.”
Jennifer Hudson as Tiana from “The Princess and the Frog”:
Taylor Swift as Rapunzel from “Tangled”:
The Haunted Mansion and Pirates:
Jack Black, Will Ferrell, and Jason Segel as Phineas, Ezra, and Gus, the Hitchhiking Ghosts of The Haunted Mansion:
Russell Brand as Captain Hook:
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow and performer, writer, and artist Patti Smith as the Second Pirate in Command:
Jeff Bridges and Penelope Cruz as Beauty and the Beast
Olivia Wilde and Alec Baldwin as the Evil Queen and Magic Mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Queen Latifah as Ursula from The Little Mermaid
Whoopi Goldberg as The Genie from Aladdin
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony as Jasmine and Aladdin
Jessica Biel as Pocahontas
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gisele Bundchen, and Tina Fey as Peter Pan, Wendy, and Tinker Bell
Julie Andrews and Abigail Breslin as the Blue Fairy and Fira from Pinocchio
Beyonce, Oliver Platt, and Lyle Lovett as Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter, and the March Hare
Julienne Moore and Michael Phelps as Ariel and a mermaid from The Little Mermaid
David Beckham as Prince Philip from Sleeping Beauty
Roger Federer as King Arthur from The Sword in the Stone
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens from Sleeping Beauty
Rachel Weisz as Snow White
Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella
Behind the Scenes of the Disney Dream Portrait photos by Annie Leibovitz
With each new picture in the Disney Dream Portrait series of photographs, making-of images were also released, showing photographer Annie Leibovitz working with her costumed celebrities to achieve the perfect shot. Below are many of these images, in no particular order, minus captions. They’re enjoyable strictly on their own.
Behind-the-scenes video of Taylor Swift as Rapunzel:
Behind-the-scenes video of Jack Black, Will Ferrell, and Jason Segel as the Haunted Mansion Hitchhiking Ghosts:
Behind-the-scenes video of Russell Brand as Captain Hook
Behind-the-scenes video of Patti Smith as a pirate:
And in case you’re wondering, these images are not created simply for art’s sake. They are used as advertisements for Disney Parks, magazines, billboards, and (obviously) online.