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Annie Leibovitz
American
Photographer
About the author
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#People
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Reason
#Talking
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Love
#Hope
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Reason
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Time
#Talking
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Now
#Weight
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#May
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
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,
American
Photographer
#Journalism
#Vocabulary
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,
American
Photographer
#Chance
#Will
#Today
#Future
#Actions
#Wonders
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Choice
#Environmental
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,
American
Photographer
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Love
#Day
#Mystery
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Change
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Responsibility
#Care
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Want
#Being
#Idea
#Women
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Living
#Nature
#Land
#Energy
#Emotion
#Magnificence
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Love
#Career
#Talking
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Wrong
#Space
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,
American
Photographer
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Nothing
#Truth
#Reality
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,
American
Photographer
#Want
#First
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Friend
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Time
#Film
#Sense
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Family
#Mother
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,
American
Photographer
#Want
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Dance
#Work
#Weather
#Light
#Nature
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#End
#Help
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Now
#People
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Reason
#Communication
The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Life
#Work
#Pretty
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Forget
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,
American
Photographer
#Heart
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Thought
#Funny
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.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Thought
#Journalism
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Information
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Protection
#Zen
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Love
#People
I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Work
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Will
#Photography
#Computer
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
Annie Leibovitz,
American
Photographer
#Difference