Zoe Leonard: Observation Point, 2012

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Video Artist Talk by Zoe Leonard

American artist Zoe Leonard, famous for her photography and installations at the German art festival Documenta, transformed the large gallery space into a camera obscura at the Camden Art Centre in England. Her exhibition Observation Points (31 March 2012 – 24 June 2012, Camden Art Centre, UK) consisted of parts: the camera obscura where the guests can observe the world from inside a big camera obscura installation, a white cube with Zoe’s photographs of the sun and an installation, which is her work table with stacks of postcards of Niagara Falls, three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York, organized after vantage point. By this exhibition Zoe Leonard is attempting to broaden the current conversation about what photography is and what it can be.

Art Book:

Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all
by Zoe Leonard and Lytle Shaw
Series: Dia Foundation
Publisher: Dia Art Foundation (January 18, 2011)
ISBN-10: 0300151683
ISBN-13: 978-0300151688

Amazon.com about the Art Book:

‘Zoe Leonard’s You see I am here after all brings together thousands of postcard images of the “great cataract,” Niagra Falls, from the early 1900s through the 1950s. This grand accumulation of viewpoints brings up issues as diverse as human interventions with nature and the function of landscape in inventing American historical narratives, as well as the technological evolution of image reproduction and dissemination.’