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I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

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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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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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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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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I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
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Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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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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My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.
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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
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When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
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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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The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
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I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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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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...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 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 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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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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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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