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When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
Sense
Come
People
Involve
Humor

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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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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
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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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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 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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When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.
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I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
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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 love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.
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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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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
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In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.
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I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
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Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
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People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
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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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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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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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