In the 1970s Leonard began examining how domestic spaces are transformed through the presence of technology by photographing the interiors of her neighbors’ homes in West Oakland, California, later moving on to other locations. She captured personal objects in bedrooms and found repetition in the common appliances present in kitchen after kitchen. She also documented the proliferation of “memo centers”—areas where notes could be jotted down near the location of a telephone, which at this time was still tethered in place by a cord.

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2022

Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 13 1/8 × 13 5/8" (33.3 × 34.6 cm)
Credit Gift of the artist in honor of Julia Marjorie Leonard and in memory of P. Alfred and Marjorie R. Leonard
Object number 391.2019
Department Photography

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Joanne Leonard

Joanne Leonard

American, born 1940 62 works online

Leonard’s work often centers on painful moments in her life: the end of her marriage, a devastating miscarriage, her mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s.

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