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
home mean differences
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don't know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I'm really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you
inspirational photography land
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
photography baby needs
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
thinking long important
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.
strong powerful
Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.
clouds light trying
When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.
inspirational photography falling-in-love
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
moments happens
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
photography opportunity men
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 woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.
inspirational photography photographer
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
photography mysterious wonderful
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
views talking people
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 of view, that's when you start taking pictures.
beautiful ideas want
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.
hope stayed true work
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.