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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.

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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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 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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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
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Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.
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One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
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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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