A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
– Annie Leibovitz
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
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 Leibovitz
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
– Annie Leibovitz
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
– Annie Leibovitz
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
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
– 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 within yourself.
– Annie Leibovitz
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
– Annie Leibovitz
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
– Annie Leibovitz
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
– Annie Leibovitz
I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
– Annie Leibovitz
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
– Annie Leibovitz
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.