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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.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Different
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