Newspaper Diary Continues: 2012-2021, Joanne Leonard 

 

 

NOTE: There are over 100 works in the series Newspaper Diary, begun in 2006 and continuing at present. Early work from the series (2006-2012) is represented on this website by the catalog, Newspaper Diary published early in 2012. You can click on this catalog to open it, page through, and enlarge the images. The list below is a selection from the work that has followed, from later in 2012 to early 2021. 

 

As I began my series (in 2006), I thought that (next to fragile clipped news pictures) book pages represented “permanence” – but more and more both newspapers and books are being transformed and “dematerialized” by the digital revolution so my project has become, unexpectedly, a kind of archiving of the hard-copy paper-based existence of both newspapers and books. An autobiographic trace in this work (news-clipping activity being a bit like diary-keeping) continues the thread of autobiography and sometimes feminist commentary (many of the clippings reflect on lives of women) that has run through much of my work, including my 2008 book, Being in Pictures, an Intimate Photo Memoir.  

 

 

Manet and Moscow: Women Watching 

June 13, 2012, News photo: Two women watched and antigovernment protest Monday in Moscow…, Dimetry Kostyukov for New York Times. Book reproduction, The Plum, Edouard Manet: Images of Parisian Life, Hajo Düchting, Prestel, Munich, New York, 1995

 

Old and New Flags

November 18, 2012. News photo: American flags were being sewn at a roadside shop in Yangon, Myanmar, before president Obama’s arrival, Gemuno Amarasingche, Associated Press. Book reproduction: Thirty-six-star flag, c. 1865, Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States, Vincent Virga and curators, Library of Congress, Portland House, 1997

 

 

Rifles Aimed to Kill 

August 9, 2013, News photo: Free Syrian Army fighters near the Menagh air base in Aleppo Province, which rebels captured this week after months of trying. Reuters. Book reproduction: Goya’s The Third of May 1808, oil on canvas, Prado, Madrid in Goya by Sarah Symmons, Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1998

 

Red Crosses on Shields of 14th Century Crusaders and Street Fighters in Kieve 

January 20, 2014, News photo A Curb on Protests Draws Violent Clashes in Ukraine, Kieve. Oleg Petrasuiuk/European Pressphoto Agency, Book reproduction: Christ leading the crusaders: from a fourteenth-century Apocalypse in Kingdom and Strongholds of the Crusades, T.S. R Boase, Bobbs-Merrill Company, inc. Indianapolis, NY 1971. 

  

Strings and Cords 

March 8, 2014, News photo Disgraced Musician Faces an Angry Japan: Mamoru Samuragochi ..first public appearance since he was revealed as a fake, Shuji Kajiyama/Associated Press. Book reproduction: Man with back pockets full of string-tags, Chicago between 1950 and 1990s, Vivien Maier: Street Photographer, ed. John Maloof, Power House Books, Brooklyn, 2011

 

Smoke Stacks 

July 25, 2014, News photo, New York Time International, Jason Lee, Reuters, “China’s Plan to Limit Coal use…,” Book reproduction, Fugue, 1940, MFA, Boston, by Charles Sheeler in Charles Sheeler Paintings and Drawings by Carol Troyen and Erica E. Hirshler, NY Graphic Society Book, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1987

 

Ebola and Christ 

October 10, 2014, News photo: A burial team with the body of Diana Flomo, 36 who died after giving birth prematurely, at a grave yard adjacent to the Bong County Ebola treatment Unit, photo by Daniel Berehulak for the New York Times, Book reproduction: The Entombment in Illuminations of Heaven and Earth: the Glories of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, (Umberto Eco), Abrams, NY, 1988 

 

Boy in Suitcase and Fetus 

May 20, 2015, News photo: Spanish Ministry via Associated Press, New York Times An 8 year old African boy was discovered in a suitcase on May 7 at border checkpoint in Cueta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. His father had paid intermediaries who he thought would arrange legal entry for the boy, the father’s lawyer said Tuesday. Book reproduction: A Child Is Born: The Drama of Life before Birth, text by C.Wirsèn, photography by Lennart Nilsson, (fetus) “over 4 months, 8 inches”, p. 117, Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1975 

 

Glasses: Reflections in Eyeglasses and Monocle 

October 24, 2015, News Photo: EPA, Julian Strattenschulte, New York Times. Book reproduction: Valencia, 1933, p. 127, by Henri Cartier-Bresson in Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Early Work, 1987, Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

Assembly Lines and Newspaper’s End 

August 18, 2016, News photo: The Sydney Morning Herald…a.. recent press run. The publisher of the newspaper which for more than 150 years has helped shape opinion in Austraila …is discussing ending weekday publication. Fairfax Media via Getty Images. Book reproduction: The Assembly of an Automobile, 1932. Leeds Museum Art Galleries. Charcoal on paper, in Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo in Detroit by Mark Rosenthal

 

Men in Bowler Hats: Prince Phillip and Magritte’s Every-man 

August 3, 2017, News photo: A different sort of Brexit, Prince Phillip…retiring from offical duties…. Photo credit: Hannah MCKay, Reuters, NYtimes Book reproduction (probably the title below) Magritte, by Daniel Abadie, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, DistributedArtPublishers (DAP), NY, 2003

 

Men on Stairs 

October 26, 2017, News photo Sunni Arab Militia Men in Karaj (in 2016), Iraq, photo by Bryan Denton, Book Reproduction: The Hampton Album, New York. Museum of Modern Art. Photographs by Frances B. Johnson; Introduction by Lincoln Kirstein, Published by Museum of Modern Art (1966)

 

Parallels: Elections, Graphs and Telephones 

November 7, 2018, News illustration – parallel telephones/phone cords Andrew Sondern with photo by Tony Cenocola, NYTimes Book reproduction in The Telephone Book: Technology Schizophrenia and Electric Speach, U of Nebraska Press by Avetal Ronell, U of Nebraska Press, 1991

 

Parallels: Elections, Graphs and Telephones 

November 7, 2018, News illustration – parallel telephones/phone cords Andrew Sondern with photo by Tony Cenocola, NYTimes Book reproduction in The Telephone Book: Technology Schizophrenia and Electric Speach, U of Nebraska Press by Avetal Ronell, U of Nebraska Press, 1991 

 

Standing Men: Texas and Yemen 

December 14, 2018, News photo: Houthis Tribesmen, Yemen. Hani Mohammed, Associated Press, Book reproduction: Dorothea Lange: Tenant Farmers, Texas, 1938 (book credit information incomplete)

 

Dancer and Bird 

October 9, 2019 (made in 2020) Newspaper photograph Speaking in Dance: Giving Thanks to An Inspiration. “It feels like praise dancing”, Alecia Graf Mack in photo by Rudolf Costin, NYtimes Book reproduction from On Feathered Wings: Birds in Flight, by Richard Etlinger, Osprey, pg. 21, Abrams, NY, 2008 

 

The Little Prince and Covid Curves 

April 7, 2020 Newsphoto: graphics in article by K.K. Rebecca Sai, graphics editor of NYTmes, Book Reproduction: The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, 1944 Wordsworth editions, 1995, England  

 

Covid Cars and Cut-Out Cows 

July 3, 2020, News photo: A corona virus testing site in Austin, Texas. Tamir Kalifa for New York Times Book reproduction: Paper Cuts by J.J. Hauswirth and Louis David Saugy Charles Apothéloz, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980 

 

Empty Frames – movie poster and comics 

November 23, 2020, News photo: Regal Cinema Display devoid of movie posters during Covid epidemic, Frederic J. Brown/Agence France Presse-Getty Images Book Reproduction: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mcloud, Harper Perennial, 1993 (JL blanked-out text frames in book)

 

Breonna Taylor and Lines of Fire 

December 31, 2020, News illustration: How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor Rendering by Anjali Singhvi and Bill Marsh, Book Reproduction: Stanley Donwood in Bad Island, Hamish Hamilton (imprint of Penguin Books) UK, 2020 

 

Funerals 

March 3, 2021 News photo– Sudden Death in Mayanmar: Mah Daisy Win, 32, a single mother who went out to buy snacks for her son, was shot during a crackdown – no photo credit other than “The New York Times.” Book Reproduction: Spanish Wake, W. Eugene Smith in W. Eugene Smith, His Photographs and Notes, with afterword by Lincoln Kirstein, An Aperture Monograph, New York, 1969