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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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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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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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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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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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I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
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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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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 wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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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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When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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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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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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I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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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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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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