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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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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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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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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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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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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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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
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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 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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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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Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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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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What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
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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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I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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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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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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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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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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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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