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Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage

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Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage

Resident Associate Members Only

Noon Members-Only Program

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Code: 1T0005
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Metro: Gallery Place (Red,Green,Yellow Lines)
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Although Annie Leibovitz is best known for her staged portraits made on assignment for magazines and advertising clients, her photos in the exhibition Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgrimage were taken more for personal rather than professional reasons: Leibovitz was moved by the subjects. There are no models, no celebrities, no VIPs in these photos. Rather, they portray the places that have shaped Leibovitz’s distinctly American cultural inheritance. The photos encompass the homes of iconic figures, including Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pete Seeger and Elvis Presley, as well as places such as Niagara Falls, Walden Pond, Old Faithful, and the Yosemite Valley. This docent-led tour is a kind of spiritual journey to places that captured Leibovitz’s imagination, unencumbered by the commercial demands of her career as a photographer.