Joanne Leonard is the Diane M. Kirkpatrick and Griselda Pollack Distinguished Professor of Art and Women's Studies and a faculty associate in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her areas of focus are photography, feminist criticism, and visual culture. Prof. Leonard was Director of the Program in Visual Culture at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender for three years. Her presentation Marlene and Me in Changing Focus: Family Photography & American Jewish Identity can be seen at The Scholar and Feminist Online in the webjournal of Barnard’s Center for Research on Women. Her photography and collage pieces are often exhibited nationally and internationally. Publications in fine arts, feminist criticism and cultural analysis include: Janson's History of Art; Gardener's Art Through the Ages; Pregnant Pictures: The Work of Women in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Light Writing & Life Writing, Photography in Autobiography; Time Life's Library of Photography and Lucy Lippard's From the Center.
Joanne Leonard photo by Eleanor Rubin, 1990s
Recent Biographical Information:
2007
Publication
Photo collage cover image for Transforming Science and Engineering Advancing Academic Women, University of Michigan Press, 2007 release, Abigail J. Stewart, et al.
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=178866
2006
Exhibit
Disturbing the Peace, Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC
Lecture
Included in The Feminine and Its Dimensions Lecture on photography by Deborah Bright, photographer, author, as part of International Women's Day, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004
Award
The Diane M. Kirpatrick and Griselda Pollock Distinguished University Professor,
University of Michigan (July 2004)
Publications
Janson’s History of Art, 6th edition revised, color reproduction of Romanticism Is
Ultimately Fatal, Abrams
Exhibition
About Face (Portraits), Denise Bibro Gallery, and Exhibition: The Art of Aging,
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York, NY and traveling New York, NY
Visitor's Residency
Visiting Artist and Scholar (February/March), American Academy in Rome
2001
Exhibition
Capturing Light, Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000,Photographs in the collection of the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
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