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When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
Annie Leibovitz
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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
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I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.
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When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.
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The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
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A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
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What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
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As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
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At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.
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In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.
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I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.
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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
Annie Leibovitz
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Annie Leibovitz
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
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