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.
Interpretation
Annie Leibovitz expresses a preference for capturing landscapes devoid of human presence, highlighting the emotional depth of nature.
In this quote, Annie Leibovitz shares her artistic evolution, revealing a growing interest in landscapes that do not include people. This shift suggests a desire to explore the emotional resonance and beauty of nature on its own, without the influence or distraction of human subjects, indicating a profound connection to the environment and the emotional narratives that landscapes can convey.
In practice
This quote could be used to inspire an art exhibit focused on nature photography.
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.
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.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
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.
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.
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
It's about the audience - if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don't, you doubt everything you've ever done.
I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.
I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.
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