Lesbians Seeing Lesbians: Building Community in Early Feminist Photography

  • 13 Sep 2011
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • New York, NY
Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation presents:
Lesbians Seeing Lesbians
Building Community in Early Feminist Photography
September 14 to October 22, 2011

Opening Reception
Tuesday, September 13, 6-8pm

at the
Leslie/Lohman Gallery
26 Wooster Street (between Canal and Grand)
New York, NY 10013
212-431-2609
Open Tues-Sat: Noon - 6pm

In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, the 1970s brought a feminist revolution with lesbians, not always acceptably, to the forefront. In pursuit of personal and political liberation, lesbians photographed each other within an emerging lesbian feminist community, asserting their right to self-representation within a context of straight men, gay men and straight women. They gave widespread visibility to a new social ideal, born of that defining lesbian feminist notation asking, "Since women are no longer defined as accessories to men, what can, and should, a feminist society be?"

Lesbians Seeing Lesbians: building community in early feminist photography focuses on three of the most prominent photographers of this early generation: Tee A. Corinne (1943-2006: St. Petersburg, Florida), JEB (Joan E. Biren [Lyon's Pride member, class of 1966], b. 1944: Washington DC), and Cathy Cade (b. 1942: Honolulu, Hawaii). In addition, this exhibition pays tribute to these pioneering women by showing work of contemporary lesbian photographers including Catherine Opie and Cass Bird that engages and reworks their founding vision in contemporary lesbian life. This exhibition also includes key documents of the lesbian feminist and lesbian separatist movements.
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