When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to catch life going by me - that I wasn't to alter it or tamper with it - that I was just to watch what was going on and report it as best I could. This shoot with John was different. I got involved, and I realized that you can't help but be touched by what goes on in front of you. I no longer believe that there is such a thing as objectivity.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. - Annie Leibovitz
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
- Annie Leibovitz
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. - Annie Leibovitz
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you. - Annie Leibovitz
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is som… - Annie Leibovitz
In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is som…
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 o… - Annie Leibovitz
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 o…
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments. - Annie Leibovitz
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
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 w… - Annie Leibovitz
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 w…
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. - Annie Leibovitz
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself. - Annie Leibovitz
Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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