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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
Photography
Ideas
People
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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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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
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Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
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When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.
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No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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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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As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
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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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Photography is not something you retire from.
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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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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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What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
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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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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 gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
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