Annie Leibovitz Quotes

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  One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.

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• A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

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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 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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• 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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• When you are on assignment, 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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• When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

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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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• 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.

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

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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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• The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

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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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• 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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• 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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• No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

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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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Birth:	2nd October, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Photographer

About

Annie Leibovitz was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is an American portrait photographer. For several years, she continued to develop her photography skills while working various jobs, including a stint on a kibbutz in Amir, Israel, for several months in 1969. When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the just launched Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stone look. She was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2009.

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