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Photography: Lesbian, Pre-Stonewall |
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Photography has long been an important artistic medium for lesbian women, but the record of Lesbian Photography before Stonewall has been obscured by time, disinterest, and overt hostility. However, the last thirty years of scholarship have produced enough material to create a dialogue about photographs made by lesbian-identified or lesbian-identifiable women. |
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 Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) may be best known for her photographs of New York City's changing cityscapes, but she also made memorable images of lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men in Paris and New York. |
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 Alice Austen (1866-1952) was one of the first American women to become a photographer. The style she developed anticipated the genre of documentary photography. |
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Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006) is one of the preeminent twentieth-century photographers of the nude female. In her nineties, she publicly revealed relationships she has had with both women and men. |
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 Romaine Brooks (1874-1970) is famous for her paintings of cross-dressed women and female nudes that made her lesbian identity known to the world. Though she is remembered as a painter, she also explored the medium of photography. |
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Claude Cahun (1894-1954), a photographer, photo collagist, writer, and translator, is known today primarily for creating images, including self-portraits, that play with concepts of gender.
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 Gisèle Freund (1908?-2000) was an accomplished and respected photojournalist who is best remembered as a chronicler of the vibrant bohemian community of artists and writers that made its home in Paris during the 1930s. |
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Florence Henri (1893-1982) was an American-born artist who produced a wide range of photography in the 1920s and 1930s, including still lifes, portraits, nudes, advertising images, and photomontages. |
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 Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was a German bisexual artist who embraced a number of artistic movements and styles during her long career. She is best known for her photomontages critiquing bourgeois culture. |
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 Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), a famous photojournalist and documentary photographer, served as the official White House photographer for the administrations of Presidents Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft. |
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942) was a Swiss writer and photojournalist who documented social conditions from Afghanistan to Alabama. Much of her documentary photography in the United States focused on the plight and sullen resignation of African Americans and poor whites in the human-built barrenness of city streets and industrial zones. |
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 Clara Estelle Sipprell (1885-1975) was a leading photographer of her day. She developed a Pictorialist approach and sought to create photographs that were as artful as paintings. |
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Related Encyclopedia Entries |
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Photography: Lesbian, Post-Stonewall
Photography: Gay Male, Pre-Stonewall
Photography: Gay Male, Post-Stonewall
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Bicycles
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Notable Birthdays this Week
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June 28 |
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RENOWNED AVANT-GARDE PHOTOGRAPHER, 1893 |
|  John Inman
ACCLAIMED COMIC ACTOR, 1935 | |
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| | David Kopay
THE FIRST AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE TO COME OUT PUBLICLY, 1942 | |
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June 29 |
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| | Carl Hester
OLYMPIC EQUESTRIAN, 1967 | |
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July 1 |
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| |  George Sand
ENORMOUSLY PROLIFIC WRITER KNOWN FOR HER CIGAR-IN-HAND CROSS-DRESSING, 1804 |
|  Charles Laughton
A MOVIE ACTOR AND DIRECTOR TORMENTED BY INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA, 1899 | |
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| |  Farley Granger
AMERICAN ACTOR KNOWN FOR PLAYING HANDSOME YET EMOTIONALLY VULNERABLE YOUNG MEN, 1925 |
| Hans Werner Henze
GERMAN COMPOSER KNOWN FOR A WIDE RANGE OF MUSICAL STYLES, 1926 | |
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| | Paul Russell
NOVELIST KNOWN FOR INTRICATE NARRATIVES THAT EXPLORE GAY RELATIONSHIPS, 1956 | |
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July 2 |
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AMERICAN FICTION WRITER, MEMOIRIST, AND EDITOR, 1920 |
| Sylvia Rivera
LEGENDARY VETERAN OF THE STONEWALL RIOTS WHO HELPED SPARK THE EVENT, 1951 | |
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July 3 |
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ARTIST FICTIONALIZED IN DJUNA BARNES' NIGHTWOOD, 1901 | |
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