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Annie Leibovitz Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2013
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Statement by Annie Leibovitz on being bestowed with the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities:
"I am deeply grateful to the Prince of Asturias Foundation for this extraordinary honor. Asturias prizes in the past have been given to people whose work is very important to me. I am pleased and humbled to be in their company."
Annie Leibovitz
New York City, 23rd May 2013
Statement by Sebastião Salgado on the conferral of the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities on Annie Leibovitz:
"I am very happy that the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities has recognized the work of Annie Leibovitz, a worldwide symbol of photographic portraiture.For me, the Prince of Asturias Award is one of the major international references in the field of culture and I am especially proud that the work of this photographer has been recognised, which I also interpret as recognition of photography itself and of our beautiful profession."
Sebastião Salgado
1998 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Paris, 23rd May 2013
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