In a huge show across five museums in Florence, Italy, the artist’s fleshy paintings and drawings hang next to idealized female forms of created by Botticelli, Michelangelo and others.
Queer Women Share Their Love of Lesbian Photographer JEB
By Kerry Manders
The 2021 reissue of
Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, originally self-published by JEB in 1979, has been met with much excitement and positive critical analyses. Several prominent lesbians recently shared their memories and reflections about this vital work with
The Advocate.
I discovered JEB’s book
Eye to Eye in 1980 when I was in college and had just gotten into my first relationship. My girlfriend and I were living together for the summer, and although we could ill afford it, we each bought a copy of the book because we wanted to cut one up and put the photos on our walls. We put them up the way people put up photos of their ancestors and relatives. They reminded us who we were and where we came from. Her work was enormously important to me as a young lesbian, providing an accurate reflection of myself. I didn’t see that in the world until JEB showed it to me.