I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
From Annie Leibovitz
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 it's representative.
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
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.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.
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