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Pilgrimage
Hardcover, 244 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $50 | purchase
Book Summary
For Pilgrimage, Annie Leibovitz visited places with personal meaning. From Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts to Georgia O'Keefe's home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, Leibovitz photographed locations and artifacts, instead of her traditional celebrity subjects.
Genres:
This book is about:
- Historic sites,
- Leibovitz, Annie,
- Celebrities,
- Pictorial works,
- Great Britain,
- Description and travel,
- Travel,
- United States
NPR stories about Pilgrimage
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The road markers are jarringly few in Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage (Random House, $50). In truth, they're almost entirely absent. There are no chapters to speak of in this diaristic photography book; no significant breaks in the text to steer us from a discussion of one Leibovitz obsession to another. In the middle of a recounting of her sojourn to the Amherst, Mass., home of poet Emily Dickinson, a majestic Leibovitz image of Niagara Falls suddenly appears. In the thick of reading... more
Author Interviews
Leibovitz Takes A 'Pilgrimage' For Artistic Renewal
November 8, 2011 From John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono to a pregnant Demi Moore, photographer Annie Leibovitz has made a career of capturing people. But her latest collection is something very different. In Pilgrimage, Leibovitz focuses her lens on places and objects that have special meaning for her.
The Picture Show
In Her Latest Project, Annie Leibovitz Focuses On What Matters
November 8, 2011 The celebrity photographer's latest personal project is surprisingly devoid of people.
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