Annie Leibovitz Quotes - Page 4

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• Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Information, Faces

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• When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Awkward, Want

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• What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Shooting, Helping

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• 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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Long, Childhood, Portraits

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• When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

  Annie Leibovitz

  San Francisco, Cameras, Docks

  "Annie, get your flashgun" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2003.

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• I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Thinking, Interesting, Soul

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• 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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Mother, Wall, Artist

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• I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Two, Littles, Mediums

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