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.