Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitzis an American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated, and her work was used on two record albums by Joan Armatrading. She is the only woman to have held an exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 October 1949
CityWaterbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
photography mysterious wonderful
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
two littles mediums
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
rolling stones way
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
emotional people landscape
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.
determination heart thinking
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.
wall thinking white
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
san-francisco docks cameras
When I was younger I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I went down to the docks in San Francisco and asked a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.
photography taken mean
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.
front quite unfold wonderful
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.
liberating projects
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
ways
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
conceptual image literally point room
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.
darkroom fell love spend time
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.
hope stayed true work
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.