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Leigh Ledare

1976

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Leigh Ledare works across photography, archival material, text, and film to examine human agency, desire, identity, and social taboo. His practice is built on intimate or structurally charged relationships, using the photographic document not as neutral record but as a site where questions of complicity, morality, and power become visible. The work operates across a wide methodological range, from personal archive to constructed scenario, holding these registers in deliberate tension.

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Vokzal

2016 · 16 mm film, DVD, sound

58 minutes

Art Institute of Chicago

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Ana and Carl and some other couples

2014 · Quarto; 256 pages printed on an Indigo digital press; bound without covers and printed on perforated paper; wrapped in a black glassine paper affixed with a wafer seal

book, overall: 12 × 9 1/2 × 1" (30.5 × 24.1 × 2.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Vol. 1: Husbands from Double Bind

2012 · Artist's book, offset printed

page (each): 10 7/8 x 8 3/8" (27.7 x 21.3 cm); overall (closed): 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 x 5/8" (28.5 x 22.3 x 1.6 cm)

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Vol. 2: Diptychs from Double Bind

2012 · Artist's book, offset printed, with text and ten prints loose in book

page (each): 15 x 11 3/4" (38.1 x 29.8 cm); overall (closed): 15 x 11 15/16 x 1/2" (38.1 x 30.3 x 1.2 cm)

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Vol. 3: Ephemera from Double Bind

2012 · Set of six revues, offset printed, with paper wrapper

page (each): 16 1/4 x 12" (41.2 x 30.5 cm); overall (each): 16 1/4 x 12 x 3/16" (41.2 x 30.5 x 0.4 cm)

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Double Bind

2012 · Artist's book, offset printed, 3 volumes

Vol. 1: page (each): 10 7/8 x 8 3/8" (27.7 x 21.3 cm); overall (closed): 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 x 5/8" (28.5 x 22.3 x 1.6 cm)

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Personal Commissions: “Let the Good Times Roll. 1 Blond, 53 yrs old, curvy, buxom, slim, clean, petite. No diseases or drugs. Seeking healthy, honest, reliable, financially secure younger man for discreet sensual fun. Ext#1084”

2008 · Chromogenic print

Image: 47.6 × 36.7 cm (18 3/4 × 14 1/2 in.); Paper: 50.1 × 36.7 cm (19 3/4 × 14 1/2 in.); Mount, sight: 56.1 × 42 cm (22 1/8 × 16 9/16 in.); Frame: 58.5 × 44.4 × 3.8 cm (23 1/16 × 17 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)

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Personal Commissions: “A dream into the Real. Very sensuous, cheerful, SWF, 38, gifted, charming looking for a distinguished, very affluent hi-end art lover, a patron to share great heights. Ext#6910”

2008 · Chromogenic print

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Personal Commissions: “She Said Yeah. SWF, sharpest knife in the drawer, and best looking too. You definitely want to get to know me. Seeking man who can keep up w/ me. No judgments. I’m pretty unconventional. Hopefully you like it that way.” (Art Institute of Chicago)

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