275 The Pilgrimage of Annie Leibovitz; Open Phones: Extraordinary Travels

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🗓️ 4 February 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Photographer Annie Leibovitz talks about her pilgrimage to the homes of famous people from our history across the United States and describes what it meant to zoom in on the places and objects from the icons of our culture. Also, Rick checks in with listeners for ideas on planning extraordinary travels.

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0:00.0	Being photographed by Annie Leibovitz is a sign you've made it to the top.
0:04.0	Her Rolling Stone portraits of rock stars back in the 1970s are icons of pop culture.
0:09.0	And she's the person they call on to photograph VIPs like Bill Gates, Queen Elizabeth, and President
0:14.7	Obama. But her latest project comes from a road trip across America and it doesn't include any
0:20.5	faces at all. The photos in her latest book, Pilgrimage,
0:24.2	put familiar places in a new light,
0:26.6	from Niagara Falls to Graceland.
0:28.9	And she takes us for an intimate glimpse
0:31.1	into the world of some extraordinary people,
0:33.6	like Emily Dickinson and Annie Oakley, Jefferson and Lincoln,
0:36.9	Ansel Adams, and Georgia O'Keefe.
0:39.7	To actually walk into her studio in Abbekew and see where she lived and worked.
0:45.8	It really did move me to tears.
0:48.1	Annie Leibovitz is our special guest in the hour ahead, plus we share travel tips for exceptional adventures of our own.
0:54.0	I'm Rick Steeves, and I'm glad you could join us.
0:57.0	It's Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:00.0	It could be the ultimate photo journal of a road trip pilgrimage.
1:04.0	The woman who's famous for her close-up and personal photographs of the icons of our age
1:08.0	gets close up and personal with us in just a moment on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:12.0	Annie Leibovitz tells us about her latest project. in just a moment on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:13.0	Annie Leibovitz tells us about her latest project,
1:15.5	and it's a revealing departure from her portrait work.
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