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
home mean differences
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don't know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I'm really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you
views may rooms
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.
tired asking archives
Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
artist cameras photographer
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.
differences photographer subtle
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
communication thinking artist
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
photography thinking computer
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
thinking artist talking
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.
artist would-be different
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.
two-worlds looks photographer
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
taken responsibility artist
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
views important point-of-view
...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
photography retiring
Photography is not something you retire from.
dark thinking light
I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.