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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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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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When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
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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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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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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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At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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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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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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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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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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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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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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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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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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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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As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
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