Nothing But The Girl by Susie Bright; Jill Posener

Nothing But The Girl

The Blatant Lesbian Image

Susie Bright; Jill Posener

‘I encourage every woman to open this book and look at these images. What you see here is what some of us see whenever we close our eyes. The lesbian vision is a wide open pupil -unafraid, impassioned, extraordinary. Open your eyes and look again’. — Dorothy Allison’For once, the subject and the object are allowed to tantalize each other and us. The result is historical documentation that’s both sexy and significant. The quest for lesbian visibility has never been more fully satisfied’. — Jewel GomezThis beautifully produced book contains the landmark work of Morgan Gwenwald, Della Grace, Diana Blok, Tee A. Corrine, Jill Posener, Honey Lee Cottrell and others. Each portfolio is accompanied by an in-depth biography of the artist in which they discuss some of the themes that have fueled their own work from sex, SM, gender and race to fashion, the body and nature.Beyond the impact of the individual photographers, Bright writes about the themes that have fueled lesbian photography: the reproach and confrontations to conventional feminism; the feminist approach to the body; lesbian relationship to popular culture; lesbian relationship to nature; generational differences; the division in dynamics of power and gender bending in lesbian imagery, from androgyny to butch-femme romandcism to gender anarchy. Bright also places the influence of lesbian photography, and women artists, within the context of the art world as a whole. She argues that the work these women have produced is not only exquisite, but revolutionary in content and presentation. All the more remarkable that it has developed despite the overt prejudice and punitive reaction in society against female sexualindependence.The lesbian image — sexy, maverick, rebellious, butch yet glamorous, strong and si

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