Leanne Shapton
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in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Swimming Studies
10 editions
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2012
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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
10 editions
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2009
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Was She Pretty?
7 editions
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2006
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Guestbook: Ghost Stories
7 editions
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2019
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The Native Trees of Canada
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2010
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Sunday Night Movies
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2013
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Waterloo-City, City-Waterloo: The Waterloo and City Line
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2013
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Toronto
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2003
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Toys Talking
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Bahnen ziehen
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“When I swim now, I step into the water as though absentmindedly touching a scar.”
― Swimming Studies
― Swimming Studies
“The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.”
― Swimming Studies
― Swimming Studies
“Being pool-trained, I'm used to seeing four sides and a bottom. When that clarity is removed I get nervous. I imagine things. Sharks, the slippery sides of large fish, shaggy pieces of sunken frigates, dark corroded iron, currents. I can swim along the shore, my usual stroke rolled and tipped by the waves, the ribbed sandy bottom wiggling beneath me, but eventually I get spooked by the open-ended horizon, the cloudy blue thought of that sheer drop-the continental shelf.”
― Swimming Studies
― Swimming Studies
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