Annie Leibovitz Quotes:- Annie Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. She is best known for her engaging portraits-particularly with celebrities-which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses.
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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.
Annie Leibovitz
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone, I know I photograph.
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.
Annie Leibovitz
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go to places and feel like you’re with someone, like you have a companion.
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The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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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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I feel very proud of the work from the ’80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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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.
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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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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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No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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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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You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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When you are on assignment, the film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person’s time turns out to be the most valuable thing.
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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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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 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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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
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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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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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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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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what’s going on, but it’s representative.
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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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Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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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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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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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’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.
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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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I’m more interested in being good than being famous.
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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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I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months, I was there, I was told that I couldn’t be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.
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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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I’m a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: a Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
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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 latitudes.
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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.
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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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As much as I’m not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it’s quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.
Annie Leibovitz
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 true. What became important was to have a point of view.
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As I get older, the book projects are – liberating is one word, but they really are me.
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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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There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
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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 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.
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I don’t think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn’t listen.
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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 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.
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I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there’s – the digital work is so interesting now. It’s come to that. I have had many different stages of photography – there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I’m in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.
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My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now I’m a little more sedentary.
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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.
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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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There’s not enough talking about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.
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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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It’s a heavyweight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the ’70s they were heavy metal.
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