Joanne Leonard’s work has always managed to exist in two alternate universes, one intimate, and another vast.  Both manage to be deeply relevant to the collective shifts of society. These new works are what the artist describes as momentary collages, contrasting the historical weight and relative durability of books with the fleeting . . . → Read More: Joanne Leonard’s Newspaper Diary on view at University of Michigan Humanities Institute, April 5, 2012]]> April 2012: Joanne Leonard’s Newspaper Diary

Joanne Leonard’s work has always managed to exist in two alternate universes, one intimate, and another vast.  Both manage to be deeply relevant to the collective shifts of society.
These new works are what the artist describes as momentary collages, contrasting the historical weight and relative durability of books with the fleeting news images she’s carefully propped up on the book’s open pages. These thoughtfully orchestrated assemblages exist only in real time… performative, here and gone once the books are closed and the clippings put away.  Yet, the photographs serve as record to preserve them despite their inherent impermanence.

As a final layer, these large scale trompe-l’oeill prints become objects for the viewer, the datelines and newspaper clippings readable, suggestive of an oversized diary or journal, marking the comings and goings and accumulations over time.

http://www.reframingphotography.com/content/joanne-leonard

and here is information about the textbook itself – already available in the U.K.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415779203/ In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history and technique to bring photographic education up-to-date with contemporary photographic practice. Reframing Photography is a broad and inclusive rethinking . . . → Read More: Joanne has a page in the remarkable new photo textbook, Reframing Photography and a link at the text book’s innovative website]]> Here is the website for Reframing Photography (Routledge, 2011)

http://www.reframingphotography.com/content/joanne-leonard

and here is information about the textbook itself – already available in the U.K.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415779203/
In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history and technique to bring photographic education up-to-date with contemporary photographic practice. Reframing Photography is a broad and inclusive rethinking of photography that will inspire students to think about the medium across time periods, across traditional themes, and through varied materials. Intended for both beginners and advanced students, and for art and non-art majors, and practicing artists, Reframing Photography compellingly represents four concerns common to all photographic practice:

University of Michigan

Introduction to a conversation with Joanne Leonard about Being in Pictures

By Sidonie Smith

Being in Pictures is so many things. As something you hold in your hand it has heft, weight, authority. Visually it is stunningly beautiful. The black and white photographs studies in light and design and affect and . . . → Read More: New commentary on Being in Pictures by autobiography scholar, Sidonie Smith]]> Author’s Forum, December 1, 2010

University of Michigan

Introduction to a conversation with Joanne Leonard about Being in Pictures

By Sidonie Smith

Being in Pictures is so many things. As something you hold in your hand it has heft, weight, authority. Visually it is stunningly beautiful. The black and white photographs studies in light and design and affect and the pleasures of looking. The pieces in color vibrant projects layering media and memory. The page layout contrapuntal. The narrative voice is one of intimacy, but also informative, analytical, the art practitioner as multilingual guide through the life story of a feminist artist. The conversation crosses media – a set of words talking to and about sets of images; but also each telling different stories, drifting to different effect and affect. The project is retrospective in two senses of the word: as an artist’s retrospective of her work and as a life writer’s construction of a past; but it also unfolds through a narrative present in which the artist looks once again at her work and talks to it.

Being in Pictures is a constellation of genres:

It is a kunstlerroman or story of an artist

It is an artist’s retrospective of her life’s experimentation with the image.

It is a family history

It is a story of mothers and daughters

It is a story of the female body, visualized, theorized, juxtaposed, remembered

It is an autoethnography of feminist art making

And it is a meditation on seeing, remembering, and making

Go . . . → Read More: Joanne Leonard essay available on line]]> Joanne Leonard’s essay Photography, Feminism and the Good Enough Mother was published in The Familial Gaze, edited by Marianne Hirsch, University Press of New England. Click on the link below to view the book,  The Familial Gaze. Readers can scroll to the table of contents and then to the essay.

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On Tuesday, Dec. 7, from 1pm – 2:30pm, Deborah Dash Moore, Sara Blair, Margaret Olin, Rebecca Zurier and Joanne Leonard will hold a panel to discuss a photography exhibit curated by Sara Blair, “The View From Below: Photography, Innovation, and the Lower East Side.” The exhibit is . . . → Read More: Participation in panel discussion:]]> The View from Below: Photography, Innovation, and The Lower Eastside

On Tuesday, Dec. 7, from 1pm – 2:30pm, Deborah Dash Moore, Sara Blair, Margaret Olin, Rebecca Zurier and Joanne Leonard will hold a panel to discuss a photography exhibit curated by Sara Blair, “The View From Below: Photography, Innovation, and the Lower East Side.” The exhibit is being co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities and the Frankel Institute, and it is being held from Nov. 12-Dec. 17. Alumni Center, University of Michigan, 200 Fletcher St., Ann Arbor.

December 01, 2010 (5:30 – 7 PM) Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Library Gallery, room 100, 913 . . . → Read More: Author’s Forum Presents:]]> Being in Pictures: A Conversation with Joanne Leonard and Sidonie Smith
This evening’s conversation explores the creative process and the ideas the work inspires.

December 01, 2010 (5:30 – 7 PM)
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Library Gallery, room 100, 913 S. University