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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Coming
Information
Face
Faces
Artist
Didn
Enough
Tight
Boring

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