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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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At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.
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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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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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Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.
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You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
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I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
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A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
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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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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 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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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
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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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