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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

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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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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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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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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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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Photography is not something you retire from.
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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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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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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 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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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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I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.
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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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If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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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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Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
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When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.
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I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
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