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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

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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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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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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The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
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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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Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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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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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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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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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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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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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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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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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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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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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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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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All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.
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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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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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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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