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If people could put their fingers on that so succinctly they'd probably be just as successful.
No one says she's the "best photographer", as I doubt there is such a thing. Successful photographers aren't generally paid for technical excellence, they're paid for their vision or their ability to get shots that other photographers can't or don't. The technicians make very good 1st Assistants, the photographers are ringleaders and provocateurs, hucksters and salesmen, directors and therapists. The brilliance of their work, at least in the commercial realm, doesn't happen behind the camera as much as in all the moments that lead to them picking up the camera. For a long time Annie was known for her ability to get unexpected images of people with highly-exposed personas, and thus are difficult to get unexpected images of...celebrities and dignitaries, public figures. Her post-Rolling Stone work for American Express and Vanity Fair brought a new era of refinement (and retouching) to her work, such that I'd say she's now known for sweepingly cinematic portraiture, often on a grand scale. Google up her Vanity Fair film noir editorial for their Hollywood Issue of a year or two ago for a perfect example of what she's now known for. Very few other photographers are able to operate on that scale with personages of that level.
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