I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
Interpretation
Annie Leibovitz expresses her choice to pursue portrait photography for its creative flexibility.
Annie Leibovitz reflects on her passionate decision to specialize in portrait photography, highlighting its vast possibilities and creative freedom. This choice indicates her desire to explore and capture the depth of human experience through visual storytelling, emphasizing how portraiture allows for a personal connection with subjects and their narratives.
In practice
An artist might use this quote to inspire students at a photography workshop.
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.
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.
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.
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.
I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
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