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You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

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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I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
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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 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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I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
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My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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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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There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
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When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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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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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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No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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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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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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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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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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