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
edit serious stop understand work
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 went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's there for us - there's so much for us in this country.
darkroom fell love spend time
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.
conceptual image literally point room
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
advantages women
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
ways
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
crawl decision personally
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
liberating projects
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
front quite unfold wonderful
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.
across boundary imaginary journalist liked objective point realized supposed
I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.
bought fan huge money robert soon
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
art artist became francisco months san school six teacher unless within
I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.
good liked people word
I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
almost room soldiers standing
For me to be in a room with those soldiers standing over there -- it's almost like you're there with them, and I think that's unbelievably powerful.