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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Annie Leibovitz
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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
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Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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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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I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
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Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
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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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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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My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
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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.
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I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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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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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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