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,
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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.
views talking people
Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.
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.
dance strong powerful
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
hard-work successful people
Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
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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.
differences photographer subtle
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
photography thinking computer
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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.
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.
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Photography is not something you retire from.