Abstract
In this article, the author looks at Joanne Leonard’s Being in Pictures and engages in a critical dialogue with the assemblage of visual and textual narratives that comprise her intimate photo memoir. In doing this, the author draws on Hannah Arendt’s take on narratives as tangible traces of uniqueness and plurality, political traits par excellence in the cultural histories of the human condition. Being aware of her role as a reader|viewer|interpreter of a woman artist’s auto|biographical narratives, the author situates her work within the framework of Peircian and Barthian semiotics, which allows her to move beyond dilemmas of representation or questions of unveiling the real Leonard. The artist is instead configured as a narrative persona, whose narratives respond to three interrelated themes of inquiry—namely, the visualization of spatial technologies, vulnerability, and the gendering of memory.
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