Joanne Leonard

Joanne Leonard
joannell@umich.edu

Joanne Leonard is a photographer, photo-collage artist, teacher, writer and feminist whose work has contributed to a wide variety of fields from fine art to autobiography studies. Her work has been included in The San Francisco Museum of Art’s Women of Photography, 1975, Lippard’s From the Center, 1976, Janson’s History of Art, 1986, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 9th ed.1991, Hirsch’s The Familial Gaze, 1996 and Chaney’s, Graphic Subjects, 2011. In 2008, her gorgeously produced visual memoir, Being In Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir with foreword by Lucy R. Lippard, was published by University of Michigan Press. In the 1960s and 70s she taught in The San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years including at San Francisco Art Institute, and Mills College. Her work is included in many museum Photography collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.