Who and Detroit Rocks! A Pictorial History of Motor City Rock and Roll 1965-1975. In January 2016, Sinclair was selected as the year's Kresge Eminent Artist, a $50,000 award given by the Kresge Foundation. Between Feb 5 2021 and May 2, 2021, MoCAD Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit exhibited the first museum show dedicated to Leni's photography and published a major monograph on Leni Sinclair's photographic work: Motor City Underground: Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963-1978, this 408 page photographic and biographical history was edited by Cary Loren and Lorraine Wild, and served as an exhibition catalog for her show at MoCAD. Leni Sinclair Archive In 2013, Sinclair received a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for a one-year project to create a public archive of the previously "disorganized negatives" of 57,000 photos of the Detroit music scene that she has taken over a half century period. References Further reading 1940 births Living people American women photographers German emigrants to the United States Wayne State University alumni 21st-century American women