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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
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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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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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
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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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I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
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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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...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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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 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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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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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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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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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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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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