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Eye to Eye

Portraits of Lesbians

Innbundet
Engelsk
Eye to Eye
Eye to Eye
  • Format: Innbundet
  • Antall sider: 120
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781944860370
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
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The women in these portraits were some of the first dykes I ever laid eyes on, and the book feels like a lost family album. -Alison Bechdel

In 1979, JEB self-published her first book, Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians. In a work that was revolutionary for its era, JEB made photographs of lesbians from different ages and backgrounds in their everyday lives¿working, playing, raising families, and striving to remake their worlds. The photographs were accompanied by writings from acclaimed authors including Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Joan Nestle, and others. Various women pictured in the book also shared their personal stories. Eye to Eye signaled a radical new way of seeing¿moving lesbian lives from the margins to the center, and reversing a history of invisibility. More than just a book, it was an affirmation of the existence of lesbians that helped to propel a political movement. Reprinted for the first time in forty years, Eye to Eye is a fa