Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (/ˈliːbəvɪts/; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. Read full biography of Annie Leibovitz →
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place... →
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but... →
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first... →
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
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... →
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (/ˈliːbəvɪts/; born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer.