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Photography is not something you retire from.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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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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One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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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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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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Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
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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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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 gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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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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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.
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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 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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I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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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.
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