Joe Watching Sesame Street, West Newton, Massachusetts
c. 1973
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.3 × 16.2 cm (6 7/16 × 6 3/8 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Artist in honor of her daughter, Julia Marjorie Leonard
Accession Number
2020.117.27
Art Historical Context
In the intimate gelatin silver print *Joe Watching Sesame Street, Newton, Massachusetts* (c. 1973), artist Joanne Leonard captures a tender slice of everyday life in suburban America. This 6 7/16 × 6 3/8-inch image, produced using the classic black-and-white gelatin silver process, showcases the medium's rich tonal depth and fine detail—hallmarks of mid-20th-century photography allowed for evocative, unadorned realism. The photograph depicts a young child named Joe absorbed in *Sesame Street*, the groundbreaking educational television program that debuted in 1969 and revolutionized children's...
About the Artist
Joanne Leonard
Joanne Leonard (born 1940) is an American photographer and artist whose work has been central to the development of feminist photography and the use of photographic collage and manipulation as vehicles for personal and political expression. Trained at the University of California, Berkeley, and active primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and later in Michigan, where she joined the faculty of th...