The exhibition can be two parts in my view. The first part was the photographs of famous persons. The second was some pictures of stuffs and landscape. While both of them were amazing, the second part resonated with me.
I'm not familiar with most of the persons in the photographs, but I still recognized Michael Jackson (my dad listened to him when I was very young), Michael Jordan (I watched NBA when I was about six or seven), Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Obama and Michelle Obama, Nicole Kidman (one of the most famed actress in China), Scarlett Johansson (my favorite face in Hollywood), John Lennon (a great music artist who I feel hard to understand) and Ono Yoko (she is much harder to understand), The Rolling Stones, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Queen Elizabeth II (where I randomly picked up my English name) . That's all the faces I could recognize in the exhibition. I was shocked that the picture of naked John Lennon with his wife was taken by Leibovitz. For all the other photographs, what I could do was to guess what they might be thinking in the picture and why they took that one. There was a series of photos taken of four women around their 30s to 40s. In the first four they looked very ordinary, one of them with her children, and one wore glasses, I can still remember. In the other four pictures they dressed performing costumes, with heavy make-ups, almost naked. The contrast between these two groups was impressive that I won't forget it for a long time.
In the second part, there was some stories or memory attached to each photo of a staff, furniture or landscape. The three picture of the Yosemite Valley, the landscape of the vegetable garden at Monticello, Jefferson's home impressed most. I could feel the attractiveness of travelling. Travelling is different with tourism. My ideal travelling is to take a camera and take pictures of scenery and items to record memory all along the journey. Money is necessary but not too much is need for purpose of travel and of course I don't require starred hotel. I thought a lot while sitting in front of the photos. The exiting part for me is that some people like Annie Lerbovitz can record some pieces of history and connect it with her own memory, and the method is photograph.
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