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,
percent
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
photographer cry shows
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
rolling stones way
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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.
liberating projects
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
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.