Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography. The art of storytelling through the lens.
The next morning, she did something she had never done before. She went to the pawn shop. With the last of her savings, she didn’t buy a new DSLR or a fancy lens. She bought a broken, beat-up Polaroid SX-70 from 1977—the kind Annie used in her early Rolling Stone days. It had a cracked casing and only two packs of expired film.
"This is what you are stealing," the automated voice whispered. "The memory. The moment. You cannot download a moment."
"Equipment is just a suggestion," Annie said, looking directly into the lens. "The real camera is your eye. The real light is your curiosity."