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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

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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My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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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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I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
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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 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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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 feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
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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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I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
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A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
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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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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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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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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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Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
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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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People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
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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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