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I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

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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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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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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You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.
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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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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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I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
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Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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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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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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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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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 feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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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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The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
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All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.
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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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Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
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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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