The fallout, uproar, outrage, hew and cry, etc. (pick your favorite descriptor) over the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair pics continues.

Vanity Fair has released a video with behind-the-scenes footage of the Annie Leibovitz photo shoot with Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus. All looks ordinary and unremarkable given the controversy and the furor.

Here is some media coverage — CNN, CNBC, and “The View” all weigh in on the discussion.

CNN Headline News report

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A discussion on CNN regarding the implications of the Vanity Fair photographs for the Hannah Montana Disney franchise.

The Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair pictures discussed on ABC’s The View. Whoppi Goldberg, who has been photographed by Annie Liebovitz offers her first-hand perspective on the Miley Cyrus photo shoot.

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Is it the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photo shoot a scandal? Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times Columnist addresses the question:

‘‘In this post-Britney and Lindsay period, every young star who has a meteoric rise like Miley will undergo ongoing scrutiny by the public,’’ longtime Hollywood image consultant and stylist Helen Bauerman told me today. ‘‘In this case you also have the ‘Disney factor’ at work too. … It’s vital for them that Miley’s image remain true to that wholesome image.’’

As for the Disney Channel — where Cyrus’ ‘‘Hannah Montana’’ show is a huge success — they issued a statement blasting Vanity Fair for ‘‘a situation created … to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines.’’

Yet Vanity Fair editors also quoted Miley in a photo caption — released with the photo last week, promoting the upcoming interview with her and her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus:

‘‘I think it’s really artsy. It wasn’t in a skanky way. Annie took, like a beautitul shot, and I thought that was really cool,’’ Miley is quoted as saying about the photo.

Leibovitz herself reacted to the hubub this afternoon: ‘‘I’m sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted,’’ she said in a statement released by Vanity Fair. ‘‘Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it. The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful.’’

Source: Miley Cyrus vs. Vanity Fair: Is this really a scandal?

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The sensationalized discussion of the “Hannah Montana” star Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photographs by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz has overpowered the photographs themselves. Compare the screen shot of ET’s upcoming report on the controversial photographs…

With the actual photograph….

And with her father, Billy Ray Cyrus

Fans and detractors alike can now decide for themselves by viewing all of the photographs and accompanying article online on the Vanity Fair Web site:

• Miley Knows Best
• Behind the Scenes with Miley Cyrus

Read more about the controversy, the finger pointing and the hand wringing:

• Miley Cyrus: I’m Sorry for Photos
• Miley Cyrus ‘Embarrassed’ by Photo Spread
• Revealing Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise
• How to Destroy Your Brand - The Miley Cyrus Way

In an updated story, People reports on the latest statement from The Disney Channel:

In its own statement about the Vanity Fair story, the Disney Channel, which broadcasts Cyrus’s series Hannah Montana, said: “Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines.”

Describing the photo session to PEOPLE, a source close to Cyrus reiterated the teen’s excitement at working with Leibovitz, and also said of the shoot: “Her parents were there all day. [Father] Billy Ray shot, too.”

Though Cyrus’s parents left before the final shot, with Miley supposed to be appearing topless, the source said: “Miley’s grandmother and her teacher were there when she shot it. Annie convinced them it was going to be artistic. Her parents are mortified. They know this is a learning moment for Miley.

“The photo suggests that she is [naked], but she is not. She is covered by a sheet, and beneath the sheet she is clothed. Originally, she was in a flesh-colored tank top but was asked to remove it.”

PEOPLE’s requests to Vanity Fair for comment were not answered on Sunday. In a statement to The New York Times, Beth Kseniak, a spokeswoman for both Vanity Fair and Leibovitz, said: “Miley’s parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley.”

Source: People: Miley Cyrus: I’m Sorry for Photos

Clearly, this is not the last of the debate or the controversy.

We have come a long way since the Vermeer “Girl with a Pearl Earring” days, whose fully clothed subject has managed to captivate viewers for centuries.

The eight-year-old Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan appear in this captivating photograph. Watch documentaries of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan right here and be reminded again of the life and triumph of the remarkable Helen Keller.

Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod. The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan’s hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls.

Experts on Keller’s life believe it could be the earliest photo of the two women together and the only one showing the blind and deaf child with a doll — the first word Sullivan spelled for Keller after they met in 1887 — according to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, which now has the photo.

“It’s really one of the best images I’ve seen in a long, long time,” said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. “This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie.”

The article continues. Here is a brief documentary on Helen Keller.

Here is a film clip from Helen Keller: In Her Story.