Annie Leibovitz Quotes
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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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I went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1972 for two or three cities. And in 1975, I was the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones. I hung onto my camera for dear life. Because it scared the hell out of me.
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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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There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
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I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
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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 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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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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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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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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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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Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
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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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I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
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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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There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
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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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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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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 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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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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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.
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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.