"Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information"

Annie Leibovitz is referring to the traditional method to portraiture, which is to catch an individual's face in a tight shot. This approach does not enable much context or details about the person, and Leibovitz found it to be uninteresting. She wished to record more than just the face of her subjects, and rather wanted to tell a story with her photographs. She wished to catch the character and the environment of her topics, and to produce a narrative with her images. She wanted to catch the essence of her topics, and to tell a story with her photos. She wanted to develop something more than simply a portrait, and to capture the feeling and the environment of her subjects. Leibovitz wished to produce something that was more than simply a face, and to capture the full story of her subjects.