2004 documentary by Pablo Helguera on the life and work of XIXth century Staten Island photographer Alice Austen. One book has been published about photographer Alice Austen: Alice’s World : The Life and Photography of an American Original, Alice Austen, 1866-1952 Authored by lesbian photo researcher Ann Novotny Devin-Adair Pub;…
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This lecture by Richard Meyer, titled “Quarantined: Alice Austen and the Secret History of Photography,” took place on Wednesday, September 9, 2011 in Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University. Art historian Richard Meyer talks the works of American photographer Alice Austen, and lesbian visibility. He also mentions the book, which he…
Laura Gilpin (1891 – 1979) was an American photographer known for her photographs of Native Americans, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo, and her Southwestern landscapes. She also frequently photographed her partner Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ ForsterElizabeth ‘Betsy’ Forster. However, those photos are not included in this slideshow. Related links Article: Laura Gilpin…
Janet Scudder, ca. 1920 / unidentified photographer. Macbeth Gallery records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Photo courtesy of The Commons at Flickr.com and Archives of American Art, USA. Janet Scudder (1869? – 1940) American artist Janet Scudder (1869? – 1940) was a sculptor, feminist, expatriate suffragette, who “frequently marched…
Paintings by Frances Hodgkins Frances Hodgkins (1869 – 1947) There is speculation that New Zealand watercolorist and painter Frances Hodgkins in fact was a closeted bisexual woman. She never married. In 1903 she met Dorothy Kate Richmond (1861-1935), an artist from Auckland with whom she travelled in France and Italy…
Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864 – 1939) Agnes Noyes Goodsir was born in Australia. From 1912 – 1920 she lived in Paris and London, before she finally settled in Paris with her companion Rachel Dunn. She has made several paintings of Rachel such as A letter from the Front / Girl on…
Interview with Janet Cooling (2010) by ArtasAuthority at YouTube. About Janet Cooling Janet Cooling ‘received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a professor in the School of Art, Design, and Art History at San…
Bettina Gray interviews photographer Ruth Bernhard; an excerpt from the Creative Mind 13-part interview series for public television produced by KQED, San Francisco aired 1991-1992. About Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. Around 1934, she began making images of women…
Video (12:00): Hannah Höch, ‘Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany’, collage, mixed media, 1919-1920.
Tamara de Lempicka at Pinacothèque de Paris Pinacothèque 2 8, rue Vignon 75009 Paris, France Through September 8, 2013 This exhibition presents some of Tamara de Lempicka’s finest works from the period 1925 – 1935. About Tamara de Lempicka Polish born painter and bisexual woman Tamara de Lempicka (1989 –…
Gender Studies and Body Politics Session 2 | published by The New School, Nyc. USA, 2010 Ann Cvetkovich, Professor of English and Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Cvetkovich discusses the problems of continuity/discontinuity across feminist generations. What turns have we taken, and how…
Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) was a French painter who became a member of Natalie Clifford Barney’s salon in Paris in the 1920s.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has launched a videostream at Vimeo and I would like to recommend their videos documenting a panel debate held alongside the museum’s inaugural show in 2011: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians – Artist & Curator Panel Discussion (part 1) and part 2 of the panel debate….
Slideshow with paintings by Romaine Brooks Romaine Brooks Lesbian Art Herstory: American Painter Romaine Brooks (1874 – 1970) worked in Paris and on Capri in the 1920s. She best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress having, and has among others painted a painting of a…
Video: présentation de l’exposition Berenice Abbott.
Published by Jeu de Paume, Paris 2012.
Sorry the pomotional fundraising video for the Breast Portrait Project by Artist Clarity Haynes published by Martha Shane on Vimeo (2011) has been deleted by the owner. This project was successfully funded a year ago. Making Herstory Sorry, this video has also been deleted. Video description: Clarity Haynes discusses her…
A Young Girl by Wyle from E. Sweeney on Vimeo. “I love it” ~ Charlie Hill, Curator of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada. Lesbian Art Herstory: Frances Loring and Florence Wyle Frances Loring (1881?-1968) and Florence Wyle (ca 1887-1968) artists and American bohemians living and working together in Toronto,…
Weimar – Jeanne Mammen by f.fiorellino Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) watercolorist, painter, printmaker was born in Berlin, grew up in Paris where she got her fine arts education, and she lived most of her adult life in Berlin. “Working in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) produced graphics,…
Watch this short walk through an exhibition with nude photographs by bisexual photographer Germaine Krull on Youtube.
Glasgow Street Kids by British painter Joan Eardley (1921 – 1963) Related Link Read about Joan Eardley at Wikipedia