Annie Leibovitz, 'Annie Oakley’s heart target,' private collection, Los Angeles, California,...

Annie Leibovitz’s new exhibition shows photographs taken simply because she was moved by the subject, such as Niagara Falls or the home of Elvis Presley. Leibovitz is far from her staged and carefully lit portraits made on assignment for magazines and advertising clients that made her famous.
“These pictures may surprise even those who know Leibovitz’s photography well,” said Grundberg, guest curator of the exhibition. “They are more intimate, personal and self-reflective than her widely published work, combining the emotional power of her recent black-and-white portraits of her family with an awareness of her own cultural legacy. All photographs are in a sense intimations of mortality, but the pictures of ‘Pilgrimage’ make this connection explicit.”
“Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage” which includes 64 photographs taken between April 2009 and May 2011, will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from Jan. 20 through May 20.
The exhibition is scheduled to tour cities throughout the United States before returning to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for its permanent collection.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jan. 20 through May 20
8th and F Streets, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004

Published 26.01.2012