Underexposed

 

Underexposed

 

Untitled


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Object Details


Artist/Maker

Ruth Leitman, American, born 1961

Date

1990

Medium

Gelatin silver medium on Plexiglas

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection

Accession #

1991.15

Description

A successful filmmaker whose work has covered such topics as female wrestlers and access to abortion, Ruth Leitman got her start as a student of photography and film at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. After graduation, she moved to Atlanta, where she made documentary photographs for a variety of publications. She also produced experimental works such as this assemblage of photographs on plexiglass showing her brand new studio the day after it was destroyed by fire. The layered aspect of this piece anticipates Leitman’s interest in the moving image.