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People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

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've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
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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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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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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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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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I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.
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I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
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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 don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.
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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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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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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.
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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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When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
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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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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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Photography is not something you retire from.
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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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