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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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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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...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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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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Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
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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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Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
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No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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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 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 you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
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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 don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
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I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
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I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
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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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