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I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Photographer
Market
Taking
Art
Always
Cared
Pictures

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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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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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Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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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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A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
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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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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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The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
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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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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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