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Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz
American Photographer
Born: Oct 2, 1949
Camera Me Picture Think Work You
Related authors: Ansel Adams Berenice Abbott Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Imogen Cunningham Robert Mapplethorpe
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
Work Nature You Yourself Strong Light Dance Weather Easy Takes Powerful Within Becomes Essence Place Your Capturing
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
Say Photograph Someone Like Know Want Anyone Them Really Means
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. Annie Leibovitz
You Picture Point Point Of View Conceptual Going May Representative Literally Room View Portrait Image
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
Me Think Would Constantly Remind Am Camera Exist Forgotten Reason Eventually Away Here
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
You Looking Hiding Like Makes Camera Forget Just Just Looking Much
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
Beautiful Women Down Older See Idea Stereotypes Being Want Being Beautiful Breaking Aging Older Women
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
Sometimes Picture Back Draw Ways Vocabulary Take Journalism Styles Go Different Created Many Different Styles Different Ways
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. Annie Leibovitz
Nature Wish Energy Living Photographed Magnificence Could Emotion Place Land
I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen. Annie Leibovitz
Advice Think Give Could Self She Because Listen Younger
My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living. Annie Leibovitz
Mother Father Philippines Military Living Air Battlefield Kind Clark Brought Hospital Casualties Had Sophisticated Make Where Which Straight Bohemian Base
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. Annie Leibovitz
Love Hope Nurture Worlds Our Immediate Outside Look Also Continue Places
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
You Picture Single Every Took Frame Would Would-Be Be Different Stays Someone Over Am Impressed Same Different Happens Place
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. Annie Leibovitz
Time Good You Soul Sometimes Think Mark Say Possible Find Surface Get Whether Interesting Them Portrait
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude. Annie Leibovitz
Decision Made Latitude Had Because Years Years Ago Lot Wanted Crawl Personally Many
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. Annie Leibovitz
Thought Important Point Point Of View True Journalism Became Doing Very Stone Rolling Rolling Stone Maybe Interested Working View Started
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. Annie Leibovitz
Ways Vocabulary Take Pictures Learned Create Palette
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. Annie Leibovitz
Myself You World Young Believe Out Would Someone Having Could Take Like Know Look Go Camera Friend Normally Person Just Places Young Person Your Hard Things Shy
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. Annie Leibovitz
Teacher Art School First Become Thinking Unless Months Francisco Institute Became Within Artist Going Six San San Francisco
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
Relationship You Wonderful Journalist Photograph Something Journalism Front Quite Unfold Much Use
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. Annie Leibovitz
Good Communication Think Must Photographers Lazy Verbal Very Get Reason Why
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time. Annie Leibovitz
Time Something Talking Go Same Same Time Hard Watch
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. Annie Leibovitz
Protection Way Tour Camera Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Used Zen
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
Problem Space White Design Think Blank Wrong Wall Anything
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was. Annie Leibovitz
Funny Thought Eastwood No-One He Clint Clint Eastwood Ever
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
Time You Valuable Sense Valuable Thing Out Most Practical Least Very Person Expensive Turns Your Film Assignment Thing
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
Tired You Everyone Say Archives Pictures Always Get After While Asking Keeps
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