Leanne Shapton
Leanne Shapton (born June 25, 1973 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian writer, publicist and artist who lives in New York City . Her main focus is clothing fashion .
Life
Shapton's mother is from the Philippines and her father is Canadian.
In Canada she worked for magazines such as Saturday Night and Maclean’s and the National Post newspaper. She directs the beautifully appointed book publisher J&L Books , Atlanta Georgia , which she founded with Jason Fulford in 2001. For her book Was She Pretty? In 2007 she received the Canadian "Dough Wright Award".
Since 2009 she has been art director for the New York Times . Shapton published there counter- editorials (op-eds). She also works as an illustrator and publisher of graphic novels .
Her book Important objects and personal belongings from the collection of Leonore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, fashion and jewelry. is presented like an auction catalog . A fictional auction house depicts and describes around 300 items; they document the course of the roughly four-year relationship between the fictional characters Lenore and Harold. There is an option for the book to be made into a film by the production company Plan B Entertainment with Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman .
The autobiographical reflection book Swimming studies , under the title 2012 Suhrkamp Verlag pull tracks brought out, represents the youth Shaptons as an oriented to Olympic qualifying championships professional swimmer, from many angles. The marked by ambition and discipline full-time project led to at the age of 18 she withdrew completely from her career as a competitive athlete. Nevertheless, her biographical imprint still has the consequence that she pays attention to the local swimming pools on almost every trip, capturing them in drawings.
Shapton lives in Greenwich Village .
Prizes and awards
- 2012: National Book Critics Circle Award in the autobiography category .
Works
- With Niklas Maak : Through Manhattan . Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25666-8 .
- with Sheila Heti , Heidi Julavits : Women in Clothes . Penguin UK, 2014 ISBN 978-0-399-16656-3 .
- Übers. Sophie Zeitz, Britt Somann-Jung: Women and dresses. What we wear, how we are +. Throughout, slightly licensed edition Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, 3rd edition 2015 ISBN 978-3-10-002242-4 .
- Sunday Night Movies . Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal 2013 ISBN 978-1-77046-127-7 .
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Swimming studies . Blue Rider Press, New York 2012 ISBN 978-0-399-15817-9 .
- Übers. Sophie Zeitz: Pulling lanes . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-518-46402-1 .
- The Native Trees of Canada . Drawn & Quarterly , New York 2010 ISBN 978-1-77046-032-4 .
- What she pretty? Graphic Novel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux , New York 2007 ISBN 978-0-374-29926-2 .
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Important Artefacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Leonore Doolan and Harold Morris, including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry. Saturday, February 14, 2009. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2009 ISBN 1-408804727 .
- Transl. Rebecca Casati : Important objects and personal possessions from the collection of Leonore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, fashion and jewelry . Berlin Verlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0901-2 .
- Toronto. Drawings. Art Data, J&L Books, Atlanta 2003, ISBN 0-9701656-8-4 .
Graphic for books
- Chuck Palahniuk : Diary . Novel. Doubleday, New York 2003 ISBN 0-385-50947-2 (book cover from LS)
exhibition
- Leanne Shapton , Kunstraum Murkudis, Berlin, January 24 to February 6, 2010
Web links
- Literature by and about Leanne Shapton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Web presence of the author
- Leanne Shapton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Shapton profile at Macmillan
- ↑ Notes from Underwater , reviewed by Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker , August 16, 2012, accessed November 20, 2012
- ↑ "Forever in water" Leanne Shapton: Railways draw , review Manuela Reichart , Germany radio culture , November 19, 2012 Retrieved on November 20, 2012
- ↑ With stories, photos of 500 women worldwide, etc. a. Lena Dunham , Miranda July , Kim Gordon , Cindy Sherman . Review: Literarization of the fashion world . FAZ , October 17, 2015, p. 15
- ↑ Undine is an early bird , Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 14, 2013, p. 12
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SURNAME | Shapton, Leanne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian artist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Ontario |