Annie Leibovitz Quotes
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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.
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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
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No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
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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.
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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.
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The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
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I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
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I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
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I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
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I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
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As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.
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I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.
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One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
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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.
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As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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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.
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There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.
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The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
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If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.