Leah Frances: American Squares – LENSCRATCH
According to John Tierney of The New York Times, “The act of reminiscing has been shown to counteract loneliness and anxiety, while also promoting personal interactions, and improving the longevity of marriages. When people speak fondly and lovingly of the past, they also tend to become more hopeful for the future. By recalling the past,
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I’m not sure if this was the case for Leah Frances, but her project, American Squares, does make us look back lovingly at relics and architecture that were once part of the zeitgeist and allows us a bit of time travel. Leah brings an outsiders delight to American iconography and has created a massively popular instagram that has received significant attention. Growing up in Canada, in close proximity to American culture, Leah spent her childhood saturated by movies and television that influenced her adult exploration of the American past. She has just released a book of this work through Aint-Bad and will be signing books at the Silver Eye Book Fair, Pittsburg on Oct 4-5th and the Boston Art Book Fair, Boston MA, Nov 8-10th.