Zoe Leonard
American, born 1961
Brooms, from the series "Analogue" (1998-2009)
INV-2270
Zoe Leonard
American, born 19611999/2006
Brooms, from the series "Analogue" (1998-2009)
Zoe Leonard American, born 1961 →21st Centurycolor photographphotograph
Date
1999/2006
Medium
Dye imbibition print
Dimensions
Image, approx: 21.8 × 21.8 cm (8 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.); Paper, approx: 50.5 × 40 cm (19 15/16 × 15 3/4 in.); Frame: 54.7 × 44.5 × 2.6 cm (21 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 1 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Through prior gift of the Mary and Leigh Block Collection; through prior purchases with Harriott A. Fox Endowment and Mary L. and Leigh B. Block Endowment Fund
In this series, over the course of 11 years, Zoe Leonard documented her changing neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; gentrification was overtaking mom-and-pop businesses at a quickening pace. Leonard also followed the trail of recycled commercial goods from these businesses to the streets of Mexico, the Middle East, and West Africa, resulting in a kind of travelogue of objects. Her choice of so-called analog tools—a 1940s Rolleiflex camera and chemically processed film, as opposed to the digital technologies then threatening to make them obsolete—is an analogue for the fate of disappearing storefronts in the age of late capitalism and globalization.
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