One of the artists who captured the era’s colorful plasticity is back after a soul-searching detour.
In the early 2000s, Leeta Harding was shooting magazine covers with Scarlett Johansson and Kathleen Hanna, and bonding with her photographic heroes like Juergen Teller and Helmut Newton. She helped define the visual identity for a certain era of creative downtown New York, the world of Marc by Marc Jacobs, Sonic Youth,magazine, and art stars who still lived in Manhattan. She was at the apex of a bright career, mounting a solo show in Italy when she got the call: she had cervical cancer.
That was no accident. She was out a lot, listening to the music that she channeled in her photographs."It was very freeing for young women," she says of that time."I saw these girls at raves looking like babies, you know, in high pigtails! I really love their color aesthetic. I love the bright colors, the gelled lights over the music. I was listening to techno ambient and doing installations in clubs also at the time with projected imagery.
This should be a cover; it's about time they put a female artist on the cover of an independent magazine.She likes to be alone with her subjects, an accidental perk when working for cash-poor independent magazines."The key for me is working one-on-one with somebody because there's no bullshit," she says. When she photographed a teenaged Scarlett Johansson for anothercover, it was just Leeta and Scarlett.
It was during this high-flying period of photographing the era's icons that Leeta abruptly became ill and completely rethought her life. She was in Turin mounting a one-woman show of her photos at Gallery InArco in 2003 when her assistant called and relayed a sobering message from her OB-GYN. Within a month she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. After her surgery and the aforementioned near-death experience, she left New York and took off across America with her first digital camera.
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