I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
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… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
“Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had to decide… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think.… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
