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...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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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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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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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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I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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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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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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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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A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
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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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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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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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Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.
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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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As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
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