A biography for Annie Leibovitzhasn’t been written yet.
“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 started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.”
“I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.”
“I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.”
“I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.”
“A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.”
“Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.”
“I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.”
“In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.”
“There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.”
“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
“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.”
“It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.”
“Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.”
“When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.”
“I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.”
“I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'”
“At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.”
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
“What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.”