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
artist shooting helping
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
artist stones rolling
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
artist awkward want
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
art photographer taking-pictures
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
artist vocabulary style
I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
artist one-day mystery
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
artist information faces
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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.
thinking artist talking
What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
artist talking needs
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
taken responsibility artist
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
artist would-be different
I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
artist choices environmental
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
communication thinking artist
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.