Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
Annie LeibovitzEveryone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
Annie LeibovitzWhen I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to catch life going by me - that I wasn't to alter it or tamper with it - that I was just to watch what was going on and report it as best I could. This shoot with John was different. I got involved, and I realized that you can't help but be touched by what goes on in front of you. I no longer believe that there is such a thing as objectivity.
Annie Leibovitz