I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
Interpretation
Annie Leibovitz expresses her choice to pursue portrait photography for its creative flexibility.
Annie Leibovitz reflects on her passionate decision to specialize in portrait photography, highlighting its vast possibilities and creative freedom. This choice indicates her desire to explore and capture the depth of human experience through visual storytelling, emphasizing how portraiture allows for a personal connection with subjects and their narratives.
In practice
An artist might use this quote to inspire students at a photography workshop.
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.
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.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
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