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
dressed empowered
It's interesting to me because she is empowered when she's dressed up,
photography opportunity men
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.
photography baby needs
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
percent
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
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.
photography thinking computer
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
roles subjects ifs
The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
photographer cry shows
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
photography mysterious wonderful
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
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.
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.
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.