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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.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Everyone
Always
Archives
Pictures
Keeps
Tired
Asking

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