ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: "There's some searching going on. I discovered some things about myself which were really comforting."
Ms. Leibovitz says she was inspired by Georgia O'Keefe, the twentieth century artist. She traveled to New Mexico to photograph the houses where O'Keeffe lived and a box of handmade pastels that she drew with.
Ms. Leibovitz also captured images of items that belonged to President Abraham Lincoln. These include his hat and gloves from when he was assassinated in eighteen-sixty-five.
Andy Grundberg curated the exhibit for the museum.
ANDY GRUNDBERG: "What she's really trying to do is evoke the presence of people, in a way, despite their absence."
He calls the exhibit "a portrait of Leibovitz."
ANDY GRUNDBERG: "This is a way of understanding how Annie Leibovitz thinks about the world through the pictures that she's taken of people and places that are important to her."
Annie Leibovitz told reporters that she had not planned to focus on people from the past.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: "What really drew me to them, I think that they stand out. I thrive on history. I love it."
One person she focused on was Annie Oakley. Annie Oakley was famous in the late eighteen hundreds for her shooting skills. She appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Annie Leibovitz photographed Annie Oakley's boots and one of her shooting targets.
She also went to Graceland, Elvis Presley's home in Tennessee. There, she took a picture of his motorcycle. The rock and roll great died in nineteen seventy-seven.
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