Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitzis an American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated, and her work was used on two record albums by Joan Armatrading. She is the only woman to have held an exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 October 1949
CityWaterbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
heart thinking matter
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
thinking littles looks
The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
determination heart thinking
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.
artist information faces
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
long childhood encounters
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.
photography tools use
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
emotional people landscape
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.
proud feels colorful
I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
two littles mediums
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
artist metal-fans weight
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
mother wall house
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.
talking goes-on watches
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
photography taken mean
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.
ideas people trying
I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.