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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

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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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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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 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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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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When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.
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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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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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Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
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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 wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
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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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Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
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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'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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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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Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.
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I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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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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