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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.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Call
Guts
Start
Pictures
Talking
Photograph
Point
View
Everyone
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Really
Trust
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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
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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.
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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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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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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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There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.
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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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I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
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No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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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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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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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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What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
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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 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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