Joanne Leonard is an American photographer, photo collage artist, and feminist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
[4] Leonard is known for her photographs and photo collages depicting private moments and personal struggles from women's lives once considered either taboo or unimportant.
[5] Her photograph, Julia and the Window of Vulnerability was chosen to illustrate the opening of the chapter, "The Modern World" in the 1991 edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages.
[8] Leonard's influence on the field of photography has been for making images of things, places, and people from women’s realms and private spaces—from a woman’s own perspective.
A large body of her work is in photo collage,[9] made with the goal of juxtaposing the intimate with social questions or political issues that are circulating today in the world.