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Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir
Joanne Leonard
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Description for Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir
Hardcover. Interweaves the photography and collage work of artist Joanne Leonard with personal narrative to reveal the creative possibilities of feminist art. Leonard's early photographs were largely documentary, capturing scenes from inner-city Oakland and the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Num Pages: 276 pages, 212 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 279 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2227.
This is the first book-length collection devoted to the extraordinary work of celebrated artist Joanne Leonard. ""Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir"" interweaves the extraordinary photography and collage work of artist Joanne Leonard with personal narrative to reveal the creative possibilities of feminist art. Leonard's early photographs were largely documentary, capturing scenes from inner-city Oakland and the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. As her art evolved she began to challenge the boundary between personal and public images, and her work turned to autobiographical and daringly intimate themes, including a failed marriage, a miscarriage, single motherhood, her identity as twin ... Read more
This is the first book-length collection devoted to the extraordinary work of celebrated artist Joanne Leonard. ""Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir"" interweaves the extraordinary photography and collage work of artist Joanne Leonard with personal narrative to reveal the creative possibilities of feminist art. Leonard's early photographs were largely documentary, capturing scenes from inner-city Oakland and the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. As her art evolved she began to challenge the boundary between personal and public images, and her work turned to autobiographical and daringly intimate themes, including a failed marriage, a miscarriage, single motherhood, her identity as twin ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
2222g
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472114023
SKU
V9780472114023
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About Joanne Leonard
Joanne Leonard is Diane M. Kirkpatrick and Griselda Pollock Distinguished University Professor of Art and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her work has been widely exhibited, and reproduced in Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Janson's History of Art, and Time-Life Library of Photography. Lucy R. Lippard is a writer and political activist who has authored twenty books, including ... Read more
Reviews for Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir
Joanne Leonard will play an important role in the history of 20th-century culture, art, and photo history for her daring and innovative subject matter... her complex and multi-layered works address women's life narratives, twinship, dementia, miscarriage, parenting, and the stages and conditions of female subjectivity. - Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds