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SUBMERGED
(for Alice Austen), 1991

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Based on a remarkable photograph taken in 1891 by Staten Island photographer Alice Austen, this series made 100 years after it was taken, is an homage to Austen for leaving a photographic record of a Victorian lesbian existence and refutes attempts by historians to neglect, negate and erase this existence.

4, Chromogenic colour photographs mounted on masonite, pine shelf.
3, 24″ x 30″ /  1, 30″ x 40″

For more about her life and work go to http://aliceausten.org/
and discussion of this work in part of an essay by Richard Meyer in Queer Art & Culture.

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