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.
Annie LeibovitzI 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 single frame.
Annie LeibovitzI 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 LeibovitzLennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
Annie LeibovitzThere's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.
Annie Leibovitz