ABOUT

Photographs is the first book to encompass the complete work of American photographer Zoe Leonard. For over 20 years, she has crisscrossed nature and culture, urban landscapes and museums, always in search of signs that speak of structures, natural and cultural conditions, contradictions, parallels and connections between them. Leonardo's photographs of anatomical wax figures, fashion shows, trees and fences present sparse black-and-white figures that open up a visual field of thought and reveal within it our visible world - the concrete, established structures that make up our reality. The political aspects of his work form the backdrop to his constant struggle with form, with imagery, with the union of symbol and content. Zoe Leonard's black-and-white photographs are like a blurred cartography of the human condition.