Annie Leibovitz Quotes

• Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

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• It’s hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

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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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• 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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• If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

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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’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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• 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 wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

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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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• I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

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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 feel very proud of the work from the ’80s because it is very bright and colorful.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Computer photography won’t be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

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

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Annie Leibovitz (44)

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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