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Zoe Leonard: “Survey”12:22

Join Kavior Moon [SCI-Arc faculty] as she discusses Zoe Leonard’s recent "Survey" exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. A mid-career retrospective that included artworks from the mid-1980s to the present, Survey featured a wide-ranging selection of photographs and sculptural installations that address gender and sexuality, subsistence living and the urban environment, and memory and loss. Instead of attempting to attain the "perfect" shot in her photographs (à la Henri Cartier-Bresson), Leonard has continually reworked her photographic and her larger artistic practice through notions of fragmentation, contingency, and complexity.

Crew Credits -

Production:
Creator and Executive Producer - Hernan Diaz Alonso
Producers - Marcelyn Gow/Reza Monahan
Director - Reza Monahan
Director of Photography - Sean Morris
B Camera - Robert Moreno
C Camera - John Keifer
Sound Engineer - Chris Trueman

Post-Production:
Story Producer: Kavior Moon
Editors: Cal Crawford/Reza Monahan

Soundtrack by: Sara Johanne and Jason Breeden

Additional Works, Installation and Press Images Courtesy of MOCA, the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

(Documenta: portraits)
Zoe Leonard

Untitled
1992
Nineteen gelatin silver prints installed within five rooms of the Neue Galerie
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Documenta IX, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany, 1992
© Zoe Leonard
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photo: Markus Tollhopf, Kassel, Courtesy

(City Aerial)
Zoe Leonard

Untitled
1989/2008
Gelatin silver print
93.6 x 65.7 cm / 36 7/8 x 25 7/8 inches
© Zoe Leonard
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth

(River Aerial)
Zoe Leonard

Untitled Aerial
1988/2008
Gelatin silver print
86.3 x 60.5 cm / 34 x 23 7/8 inches
© Zoe Leonard
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth

(Train Tracks Aerial)
Zoe Leonard

Untitled Aerial
1986/2007
Gelatin silver print
82 x 57 cm / 32 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches
© Zoe Leonard
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth

(Water Aerial)
Zoe Leonard

Untitled
1987/2017
Gelatin silver print
59.7 x 85.7 cm / 23 1/2 x 33 3/4 inches
© Zoe Leonard
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth

(fashion show)
Frontal View, Geoffrey Beene Fashion
1990
Gelatin silver print
126.7 x 79.1 cm / 49 7/8 x 31 1/8 inches
© Zoe Leonard
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Behind the Gare St. Lazare
1932
© 2019 Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
http://www.moma.org.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Washington D.C.
1957
© 2019 Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
http://www.moma.org.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Alicante, Spain
1932
© 2019 Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
http://www.moma.org.

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