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BOOK
Title Pilgrimage / Annie Leibovitz ; introduction by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Imprint New York : Random House, 2011

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 Stadsbibl:Magasin 4  Inz Leibovitz, Annie    PÅ LAGNING  ---
Edition 1. ed.
Descript 244 s. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm
Content Innehåll: Emily Dickinson -- Niagara Falls -- virginia Woolf -- Charleston farmhouse -- Sigmund Freud -- Charles Darwin -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Marian Anderson -- Gettysburg -- Abraham Lincoln -- Daniel Chester French -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Martha Graham -- Elvis Presley -- Monticello -- Meriwether Lewis & William Clark -- Annie Oakley -- Pete Seeger -- Louisa May Alcott -- Henry David Thoreau -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- John Muir -- Julia Margaret Cameron -- Ansel Adams -- Farnsworth house -- Old Faithful -- Robert Smithson
Note "Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. "That's when I started making lists," she says. She added the houses of Virginia Woolf and Charles Darwin in the English countryside and Sigmund Freud's final home, in London, but most of the places on the lists were American. The work became more ambitious as Leibovitz discovered that she wanted to photograph objects as well as rooms and landscapes. She began to use more sophisticated cameras and a tripod and to travel with an assistant, but the project remained personal. Leibovitz went to Concord to photograph the site of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond. Once she got there, she was drawn into the wider world of the Concord writers. Ralph Waldo Emerson's home and Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott and her family lived and worked, became subjects. The Massachusetts studio of the Beaux Arts sculptor Daniel Chester French, who made the seated statue in the Lincoln Memorial, became the touchstone for trips to Gettysburg and to the archives where the glass negatives of Lincoln's portraits have been saved. Lincoln's portraitists--principally Alexander Gardner and the photographers in Mathew Brady's studio--were also the men whose work at the Gettysburg battlefield established the foundation for war photography. At almost exactly the same time, in a remote, primitive studio on the Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron was developing her own ultimately influential style of portraiture. Leibovitz made two trips to the Isle of Wight and, in an homage to the other photographer on her list, Ansel Adams, she explored the trails above the Yosemite Valley, where Adams worked for fifty years. The final list of subjects is perhaps a bit eccentric. Georgia O'Keeffe and Eleanor Roosevelt but also Elvis Presley and Annie Oakley, among others. Figurative imagery gives way to the abstractions of Old Faithful and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. Pilgrimage was a restorative project for Leibovitz, and the arc of the narrative is her own. "From the beginning, when I was watching my children stand mesmerized over Niagara Falls, it was an exercise in renewal," she says. "It taught me to see again.""--
Subject Leibovitz, Annie, 1949- -- Travel
Leibovitz, Annie, 1949- -- resor
Historiska platser -- Förenta staterna -- bildverk
Historiska platser -- Storbritannien -- bildverk
Historic sites -- United States -- Pictorial works
Historic sites -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works
Celebrities
United States -- Pictorial works
Great Britain -- Pictorial works
Fotokonst
Fotografi
Classmark 973
Inz Leibovitz, Annie
Lz Leibovitz, Annie
ISBN/ISSN 9780375505089
0375505083
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