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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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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 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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When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.
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I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.
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People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
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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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Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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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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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've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
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When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.
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The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
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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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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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Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.
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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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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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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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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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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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