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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.

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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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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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
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You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
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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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Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
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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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When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.
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A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
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In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.
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People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
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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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...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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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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I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
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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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At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
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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.
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