Press Release

Being in Pictures
An Intimate Photo Memoir
Joanne Leonard

Being in Pictures presents art and commentary by Joanne Leonard, exploring the themes of one woman’s life in imaginative works that combine text and image to evoke the universal themes in women’s lives will be released this fall.

Leonard is known for her compelling pieces, which mix elements of photography, collage, and memoir in evocative, dream-like creations. Leonard’s early photographs in the 1970s were largely documentary, capturing scenes from inner-city Oakland and the winter Olympics.

As her art evolved, it increasingly turned to autobiographical and daringly intimate themes, including a failed marriage, miscarriage, single motherhood, her identity as a twin and as a daughter of survivors of the Holocaust, and the problems of memory and aging.

Joanne Leonard is Diane M. Kirkpatrick and Griselda Pollock Distinguished University Professor of Art and Women’s Studies, Professor of Art, School of Art and Design and Professor of Women’s Studies, College of LSA, University of Michigan. Her photographs and photo-collage works have been published in Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Janson’s History of Art, and Time Life Library of Photography. Her own writing appears in Modern Fiction Studies and Michigan Feminist Studies.

Publication Date: September 2007
Cloth 978-0-472-11402-3 $35.00
11 x 11, ca. 276 pages, 212 photographs
Distribution: Perseus Distribution Services, Inc. (Jackson, TN)