Tiger Woods on Vanity Fair

The February issue of Vanity Fair will have one of the most-talked about celebrities of 2009 and 2010 on its cover: Tiger Woods. Photographer Annie Leibovitz took the picture on the front and the pictures inside in 1996, and they are pictures that have never before been released.

These photos reveal Woods in a way that many have never seen him—shirtless with ripped abs and a buff body, lifting weights. He is wearing a cap on his head and a very cold, serious expression on his face. This contrasts the image the public normally has of Woods: a cheerful, all-American, smiling face.

Leibovitz may have prompted this bad-boy image in 1996, but now that there is a huge scandal still being talked about, it is no surprise that they are being released now.

In other Tiger Woods news—his wife, Elin, is supposedly back in the United States after having spent some time in Switzerland and France.