I remember when Kodachrome II was phased out in the seventies. From ‘Annie Leibovitz At Work.'Īre you happy with the move from film to digital? They’ve been catered to for so long that they have a very poor sense of reality.Ĭertainly fewer than I did when I was young. Not all of them, of course, but some of them go off the edge. Especially those who have been in show business since they were children. That being said, in my experience the most difficult people are the people who have been in show business the longest. You can’t be indiscreet in this business. But there certainly are people who are a pain to work with. The strobe doesn’t fire fast enough, or doesn’t fire at all. If it’s a big production, you might have a bad hair person. You haven’t finished shooting and the sun is going down. What causes problems are things like the weather. The difficulties usually don’t have much to do with the subject. Who’s the most difficult person you’ve ever photographed? The accumulation of photographs over the years. What means the most to me is the body of my work. I don’t have a single favorite photograph. You might even seem to be obsessive about it. This may have been because I was published, but whether you’re published or not, you have to care about what you do.
Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I’m really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you.
Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don’t know as much about.
Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. What advice do you have for a young photographer who is just starting out? Here, we’ve excerpted a section of the book where Leibovitz answers her ten most-asked questions to reveal sought-after details, like where she gets her inspiration and how she feels about the transition from film to digital photography. a revised and updated version of the bestselling book originally published in 2008-Leibovitz explains how her pictures are made. Clearly, any aspiring photographer, or fan of the medium, would appreciate advice from Leibovitz, who’s now regarded as one of the most influential photographers of our time. , and in 1991 she became the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery. The legendary photographer, best known for her celebrity portraiture, started out as a photojournalist for Anything in the world, what would it be? Perhaps one of the ten questions that she gets asked most frequently.
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