Annie Leibovitz's new Exhibit- PILGRAMAGE

'Pilgramage' is an exhibit that depicts a different type of 'portraiture' by Annie Leibovitz. Annie leibovitz is popularly know for her photography and portraits of famous people, but in this exhibit she takes us on a journey to various famous and influential people and places that are of personal interest to her. From Lincoln to Georgia O'Keefe, or Niagara Falls to Yellowstone; each photograph reveals a part of the experience at a location and the magnificence of it. Instead of taking traditional portraits, she photographs items that hold a memory of the subject which gives us a glimpse into their personality.


Here are two links for more information on the exhibition and her work:

-A fantastic online lecture by her on this exhibition and her work-
http://www.americanart.si.edu/calendar/lectures/archive/2012/leibovitz/index.cfm

-The exhibition's info-  http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/leibovitz/

Below are some select photos of the items she chose to shoot in order to give the viewers a glimpse into the lives and characters of the subjects.



During the visit with her children to the Niagara Falls in Ontario, she took this photo at the same location where her daughters sat mesmerized by the falls, capturing their memory and experience.

Georgia O'Keefe's pastels she used everyday.




She took a detailed shot of Emily Dickinson's only surviving dress at the Amherst Historical Society in Amherst, Mass.



Sigmund Freud's couch in his study at 20 Maresfield Gardens in London


Annie Oakley’s heart target from a private collection in Los Angeles, Calif

 A glass negative of a multiple-lens portrait of Lincoln made on Feb. 9, 1864, by Anthony Berger at the Brady Gallery in Washington, D.C.

 The darkroom in Ansel Adams’s home in Carmel, Calif.


Photos taken from: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/annie-leibovitzs-pilgrimage.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

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