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I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

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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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
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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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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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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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Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
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As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
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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 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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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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All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.
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The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
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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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A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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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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