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Publisher Note

Throughout the 1970s, filmmaker Barbara Hammer toured the United States, Africa, and Europe, making film after film about women and the lesbian experience, both of which had seldom been seen by a woman, for women on screen before. She made a slew of now-legendary experimental films, including Sis­ters! (1973), Dyketactics (1974), Multiple Orgasm (1976), Sappho {1978), and Double Strength {1978), more or less inventing lesbian cinema at a time when such material had largely been relegated to the pornographic imagination of male artists and filmmakers. During this prolific period, Hammer photographed her travels, her lovers, moments of community and kinship between her collaborators on set, private and public performances, friends, strangers. Through these photographs, Hammer explodes traditional notions of female sexuality by showing it for what it is: complex, messy, abstract, human.

Photobook

Truant: Photographs 1970-1979

by Barbara Hammer

Publisher
Release Place New York, NY, United States of America
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2017
Credits
Artist: Barbara Hammer
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-0997444667
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Body, Memory, Remembrance, Women
Methods Photography
Language English
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 23.0 × 31.5 × 2.0 cm
Pages 152
Technique Offset