Annie Leibovitz Quotes

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Annie Leibovitz

Profession : Photographer

Birth : October 2, 1949

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

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As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.

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What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

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When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

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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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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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I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's there for us - there's so much for us in this country.

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There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.

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I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

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There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.

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I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

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There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

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I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

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I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

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