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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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A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
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I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
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I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
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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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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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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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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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If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
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Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
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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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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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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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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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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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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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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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Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
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When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
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The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
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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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