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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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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
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My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
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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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Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
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I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
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When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
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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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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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...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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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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