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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
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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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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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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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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When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.
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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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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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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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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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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 feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
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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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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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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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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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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 gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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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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No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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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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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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