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I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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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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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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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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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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At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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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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Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
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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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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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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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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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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 still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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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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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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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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