Laundry (View from Joanne’s Side Window) West Oakland, California
c. 1963–1971
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.8 × 22 cm (9 × 8 11/16 in.) sheet: 28 × 22.5 cm (11 × 8 7/8 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
2020.117.2
Art Historical Context
**Laundry (View from’s Side Window), West, California** *anne Leonard, c.1963–1971, gelatin silver print* into the everyday poetry of mid-20th-century urban life with Joanne Leonard's *La (View from Joanne’s Window), West Oakland,*. This intimate gelatin silver print, captured from the artist's own window during the late 1960s and early 1970s, frames a humble scene of hanging laundry against the backdrop of West Oakland—a vibrant, working-class neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area amid social upheavals like the Civil Rights Movement and counterculture shifts. Leonard, a pioneering ...
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...