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When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

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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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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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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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
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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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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'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
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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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I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
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There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
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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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When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
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The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
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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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Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
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