Annie Leibovitz Quotes

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Annie Leibovitz

Profession : Photographer

Birth : October 2, 1949

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

Annie Leibovitz

I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.

Annie Leibovitz

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.

Annie Leibovitz

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Leibovitz

I went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1972 for two or three cities. And in 1975, I was the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones. I hung onto my camera for dear life. Because it scared the hell out of me.

Annie Leibovitz

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.

Annie Leibovitz

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Annie Leibovitz

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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Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

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I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

Annie Leibovitz

I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.

Annie Leibovitz

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

Annie Leibovitz

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Annie Leibovitz

One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.

Annie Leibovitz

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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What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

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When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

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I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

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I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.

Annie Leibovitz

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.

Annie Leibovitz