Queen row images to go on display

Annie Leibovitz made her name working for Rolling Stone magazine

Images of the Queen taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz during a controversial photoshoot are to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery.

The exhibition of her work, including celebrity portraits and personal photographs, will begin in October.

A clip of the Queen supposedly walking out of the photoshoot cost BBC One controller Peter Fincham his job after it was used in a press launch.

The film was misleadingly edited by documentary maker RDF Media.

Private pictures

Among 150 pictures in the exhibition are some featuring her lover Susan Sontag, who died of cancer in 2004.

This is one life and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it Annie Leibovitz

Other images in the exhibition, entitled Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990 - 2005, include the election of Hillary Clinton to the US Senate and pictures from Sarajevo in the early 1990s.

Leibovitz has said of the collection: "I don't have two lives. This is one life and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it."

National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne said the private pictures within the exhibition were "like reading someone's diaries".

"There's a kind of shock about getting so close to somebody," she said.

The Queen portraits were "incredibly strong and powerful", she added.

Peter Fincham left the BBC over his handling of the affair

Last year, Leibovitz said she was "amused" by the row over the BBC documentary.

But she said that programme makers had "missed the whole point" when they recut the footage to make it look as though the monarch was storming out of the photoshoot.

In fact, the footage was of her walking into the session.

Leibovitz, 58, made her name as chief photographer at Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s before working for Vanity Fair and Vogue.

Famous photographs taken by Leibovitz include one of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken five hours before he was shot dead and a picture of a pregnant and naked Demi Moore.