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" I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. "

Annie Leibovitz

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" My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living. "

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