Annie Leibovitz
American · 1949–
Iconic portrait photographer whose theatrical, intimate celebrity images for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair became defining works of contemporary photography.
Wikipedia ↗“The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding, but you forget — you are just looking so much.”
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“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
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“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy — your work becomes a dance with light.”
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“One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and on. It's on all the time.”
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“The work that I cared about the most was always the personal work.”
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“I've said about a million times that the best thing about a photograph is that it doesn't change even when the people in it do.”
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“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
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“I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a lot of white space.”
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“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”
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“When I say I want to photograph someone, what I really mean is that I'd like to know them.”
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