I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me. Annie Leibovitz More Quotes by Annie Leibovitz More Quotes From Annie Leibovitz When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion. Annie Leibovitz camerasphotographerartist 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. I would have forgotten my reason to exist. Annie Leibovitz camerasphotographerthinking Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. Annie Leibovitz matterheartthinking 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. Annie Leibovitz mysteryone-dayartist The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo! Annie Leibovitz littleslooksthinking It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal. Annie Leibovitz metal-fanscamerasartist 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 wallartistmother 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 dockssan-franciscocameras ...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective. Annie Leibovitz point-of-viewimportantviews It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time. Annie Leibovitz artisttalkingwatches I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful. Annie Leibovitz 80sproudfeels 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 mediumslittlestwo 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. Annie Leibovitz rollingartiststones 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 portraitschildhoodlong I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark. Annie Leibovitz lightdarkthinking 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. Annie Leibovitz stylevocabularyartist No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was. Annie Leibovitz funny 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 soulinterestingthinking I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market. Annie Leibovitz taking-picturesphotographerart There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself. Annie Leibovitz portraitsrelaxreal
