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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Ruth Leitman, American, born 1961
Date
1989
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
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Credit
Gift of Ann and Ben Johnson
Accession #
2000.276
Description
Before devoting herself full time to filmmaking, Ruth Leitman worked as a documentary photographer in Atlanta. This view of a pensive young woman made in Piedmont Park was part of a series on teenage girls that ultimately inspired Leitman’s first documentary film, Wildwood, NJ (1994), a sweet and piercing portrait of the girls and women she encountered at the popular, blue-collar seaside resort.