Among her subjects: artist Georgia O'Keeefe's New Mexico home and studio, Mount Vernon, Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth home built on stilts near Chicago and drawings in Louisa May Alcott's house. Leibovitz began the project in 2009 when she took her two young children to see Niagara Falls. For the first time since art school, she chose her own path, stayed away from assignments and followed her intuition is choosing subjects.
Leibovitz stated about the project: "It was definitely a search. It's all the things we search for: a reason to be alive, to go on, to do things. There's a whole list there." For her the project was "an exercise in renewal. It taught me to see again."
The New York Times Magazine collected readers' photos of their cultural pilgrimages. What's on your cultural pilgrimage travel bucket list?
Shown in the Images:
1. Dining room mirrors reflect a stairway in Graceland, Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, where he lived from 1957 until his death in 1977.
2. Sharpshooter Annie Oakley's trunk, which is now at the Garst Museum in Greenville, Ohio.
3. Ansel Adams' darkroom, in his Carmel, California, house, as part of her tribute to "what Ansel did to make people aware of how extraordinary the landscape is."
The exhibition "Pilgrimages" is on view until May 20, 2012 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. See the New York Times Magazine feature on cultural pilgrimages by clicking here.
Images: Annie Leibovitz
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That's a looong list.
Done: Chichen Itza on the equinox. Horseback riding in the South of France. Glasgow school of design. The Sagrada Familia. Ellis Island and a Broadway show. Drinking in a beer garden in Frankfurt. The Vatican. Westminster Abbey. The German Pavilion in Barcelona. Climb the ruins of Coba. Wander the corridors of the Louvre and the catacombs of Paris.
To do: La Tomatina in Valencia. The Haggia Sophia. The Guggenheim in Bilbao. Falling Waters. Angkor Wat. A traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Holi in Nepal. Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Monks getting alms in Laos. Auchewitz in Poland. Shopping for art in Hydra. The HR Giger museum in Gruyeres. Bungee jumping off of Verzasca Dam (okay, not cultural, but still pretty damn cool). The Kremlin. Wat Pho and street food in Bangkok. The market in Marrakesh. The Bauhaus school of design is Dassau. Walk the Great Wall. I really, truly could go on about this for some time.