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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.
Annie Leibovitz
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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
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Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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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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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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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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Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
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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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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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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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Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
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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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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 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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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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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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I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
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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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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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