New York: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians

Press release from The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Lesbians Seeing Lesbians Building Community in Early Feminist Photography Exhibition Ends October 22, 2011 at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster Street, NYC, USA Tee Corrine, Self-portrait, Gelatin silver print, 1980. Press photo courtesy of Leslie-Lohman Gallery. In the wake…

Lesbian Art Herstory: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians

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, b.1944: Washington D.C.), and Cathy Cade (b.1942: Honolulu, Hawaii). And the works of contemporary lesbian photographers: Cass Bird, Angela Jimenez, Zanele Muholi and Catherine Opie.

Queer portraits at the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in USA announces that ‘Hide/Seek’ – Difference and desire in American portraiture is the first museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture.

Artist talk: Queer Photographer Cass Bird

American photographer Cass Bird’s has given an artist talk, which was documented on video (15 min). Here she discusses her photography, which began as an outlet, a replacement for verbal communication.