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, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. “That’s when I started making lists,” she says. She added the houses of Virginia Woolf and Charles Darwin in the English countryside and Sigmund Freud’s final home, in London, but most of the places on the lists were American. The work became more ambitious as Leibovitz discovered that she wanted to photograph objects as well as rooms and landscapes. She began to use more sophisticated cameras and a tripod and to travel with an assistant, but the project remained personal.
Leibovitz went to Concord to photograph the site of Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond. Once she got there, she was drawn into the wider world of the Concord writers. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home and Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott and her family lived and worked, became subjects. The Massachusetts studio of the Beaux Arts sculptor Daniel Chester French, who made the seated statue in the Lincoln Memorial, became the touchstone for trips to Gettysburg and to the archives where the glass negatives of Lincoln’s portraits have been saved. Lincoln’s portraitists—principally Alexander Gardner and the photographers in Mathew Brady’s studio—were also the men whose work at the Gettysburg battlefield established the foundation for war photography. At almost exactly the same time, in a remote, primitive studio on the Isle of Wight, Julia Margaret Cameron was developing her own ultimately influential style of portraiture. Leibovitz made two trips to the Isle of Wight and, in an homage to the other photographer on her list, Ansel Adams, she explored the trails above the Yosemite Valley, where Adams worked for fifty years.
The final list of subjects is perhaps a bit eccentric. Georgia O’Keeffe and Eleanor Roosevelt but also Elvis Presley and Annie Oakley, among others. Figurative imagery gives way to the abstractions of Old Faithful and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Pilgrimage was a restorative project for Leibovitz, and the arc of the narrative is her own. “From the beginning, when I was watching my children stand mesmerized over Niagara Falls, it was an exercise in renewal,” she says. “It taught me to see again.”
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初翻开这本书,我对这种宏大叙事略感吃力,以为会是一本需要啃读的“硬骨头”,但很快,作者的语言风格就成功地吸引了我。她的笔触如同清澈的溪流,看似平缓,实则暗藏着汹涌的暗流。那些对历史背景和文化习俗的细致考据,并没有变成枯燥的说明,而是巧妙地融入到角色的日常对话和行动中,让知识的获取变得自然而愉悦。我尤其欣赏她对“时间”这一概念的处理。故事在不同时空之间穿梭自如,但过渡得极其流畅,没有丝毫的跳跃感。这种非线性的叙事反而增强了悬念和宿命感,让你感觉历史的重量和个人的渺小与抗争是多么紧密地交织在一起。对于喜欢深度思考、不满足于表面情节的读者来说,这本书提供了巨大的解读空间。我甚至不得不去查阅了一些背景资料,以便更深刻地理解某些隐晦的象征意义,这无疑增加了阅读的厚度和趣味性。
评分坦白说,我不是那种热衷于追逐“现象级”作品的读者,但朋友们一致的推荐让我最终拿起了这本书。一开始我以为这会是一部传统意义上的冒险故事,但很快我发现自己陷入了一种更深层的迷宫。作者对于环境的描绘简直是教科书级别的,你甚至能感受到高原上稀薄的空气,或是沙漠中炙热的沙尘拍打在皮肤上的感觉。这种感官上的沉浸感是极其罕见的。更妙的是,她将外在环境的严酷与人物内心的孤独感完美地融合在一起。很多时候,环境就是人物心境的外化,两者相互映照,形成了强大的情感共鸣场。这本书的结构设计非常巧妙,它不是简单的时间线推进,更像是一系列相互关联的碎片,需要读者主动去拼凑,这种主动参与感极大地提升了阅读的乐趣和成就感。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直让人欲罢不能,作者对细节的捕捉能力令人惊叹。那些描绘异域风情的笔触,仿佛带着读者亲身踏足了那些古老的土地,空气中弥漫的香料味、阳光下尘土飞扬的景象,都栩栩如生地呈现在眼前。尤其是在描述角色内心挣扎和情感波动时,文字的张力拿捏得恰到好处,没有冗余的抒情,却能深深触动人心。我特别欣赏作者处理复杂人际关系的方式,那种微妙的试探、不言而喻的默契,都被刻画得入木三分,让人忍不住去猜测下一秒他们会做出怎样的选择。整个故事结构精巧,线索层层递进,即便中间有些许看似无关紧要的片段,最终都能汇集成一股强大的洪流,将读者推向一个意想不到但又合乎情理的结局。我熬了好几个通宵才读完,现在回想起来,那种沉浸式的阅读体验,在近期的阅读中是绝无仅有的。它不仅仅是一个故事,更像是一次深入灵魂的探索,让人在合上书本后,仍久久不能平静,反思着自己人生的方向和意义。
评分这本书的语言风格非常独特,介于古典的庄重与现代的犀利之间,构建了一种既疏离又亲密的叙事距离。我尤其欣赏作者在处理情绪爆发点时的克制。那些最激烈、最痛苦的时刻,往往被处理得极其冷静,通过环境的细节或一个不经意的动作来侧面烘托,这种“不着一字,尽得风流”的写法,比直接的情感宣泄更有冲击力。它迫使我停下来,反刍那些看似平静的句子,挖掘其深层含义。这本书关于“身份认同”的探讨也极其深刻,它并不局限于民族或地理上的归属,而是深入到个体在历史洪流中如何定义“自我”这一永恒的命题。读完后,我发现自己开始用一种全新的视角审视自己生活中的一些既定观念,这本书的影响力已经超越了故事本身,它真正做到了拓展读者的思维边界。
评分这本书的文学价值毋庸置疑,但更让我惊喜的是其蕴含的哲学思辨的深度。它探讨的主题非常宏大——关于信仰的本质、记忆的可靠性,以及个体在面对不可抗力时的选择权。作者没有给出任何简单的答案,反而抛出了更多尖锐的问题,迫使读者进行自我对话。我最欣赏的一点是,她成功地塑造了一批充满缺陷但又无比真实的人物群像。没有绝对的英雄或恶棍,每个人都有其复杂的光源和阴影面,他们的动机是灰色地带的,这使得阅读过程充满了张力。当某个角色做出看似错误的决定时,你不会立刻谴责,而是能体谅其背后的无奈和挣扎,这才是真正高级的文学共情。这本书的篇幅不短,但阅读体验却异常轻盈,文字的韵律感极强,仿佛是为某种古老的吟唱而作的配乐,读起来有一种节奏上的享受。
评分镜头下没有人感觉就是差了一些,毕竟人像还是她的强项。另外此书开本太小,很多本来应该震撼的图从中间被切开,阅读体验差评!
评分摄影家Annie Leibovitz的朝圣之旅,这一次她的镜头下没有一个人。
评分The best thing about getting older is that you kind of know what you are doing --if you stick with something. It doesn't get easier, but you get stronger.
评分The best thing about getting older is that you kind of know what you are doing --if you stick with something. It doesn't get easier, but you get stronger.
评分摄影家Annie Leibovitz的朝圣之旅,这一次她的镜头下没有一个人。
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