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Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton
Leanne Shapton is an artist; author of several books, including Swimming Studies (winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography) and Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris; and a coauthor of The New York Times bestselling Women in Clothes. She is also the cofounder of J&L Books, a nonprofit publisher of art and photography books. She lives in New York City.


‘Alcatraz’
A Story by Leanne Shapton

From Her Collection Guestbook
April 4, 2019  By Leanne Shapton
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