Pilgrimage.

LEIBOVITZ, Annie. Introduction by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Item Number: 131607

New York: Random House, 2011.

First edition of Leibovitz’s self-proclaimed “exercise in renewal.” Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “for Gail well- here we are again cough, cough….. so many miles Love, Annie Seattle 2011.” Fine in a fine dust jacket retaining the wrap-around band.

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, and a few months later she went with her three young children to Niagra Falls. "That's when I started making lists," she says, She added the houses of Virginia Woolf and Charles Dickens in the English countryside and, later, visited the homes of Georgia O'Keefe, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Elvis Presley, documenting each place with lush, figurative imagery.