Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
In a full-circle moment, artist Minerva Diaz rediscovered an image of herself, on view at ICP! Diaz is the engineer in this image by Freda Leinwand, on view in ICP's American Job: 1940–2011.
A friend of Diaz's, whom she hadn't seen in over three decades, contacted her after seeing the image in the New Yorker and recognizing her. Of course, she had to stop by and see for herself.
Freda Leinwand is best known for documenting the Women's Liberation Movement; this image of Diaz was taken as part of a series of women in the workplace that the photographer was working on.
American Job, curated by Makeda Best, is on view at ICP through May 5.
Image: Freda Leinwand, Stationary Engineer checking air conditioning gauges. Part of the Freda Leinwand Papers, Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
In a full-circle moment, artist Minerva Diaz rediscovered an image of herself, on view at ICP! Diaz is the engineer in this image by Freda Leinwand, on view in ICP's American Job: 1940–2011.
A friend of Diaz's, whom she hadn't seen in over three decades, contacted her after seeing the image in the New Yorker and recognizing her. Of course, she had to stop by and see for herself.
Freda Leinwand is best known for documenting the Women's Liberation Movement; this image of Diaz was taken as part of a series of women in the workplace that the photographer was working on.
American Job, curated by Makeda Best, is on view at ICP through May 5.
Image: Freda Leinwand, Stationary Engineer checking air conditioning gauges. Part of the Freda Leinwand Papers, Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
