Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

<!-- ...fix end //-->What or who defines a lesbian photograph? The photographer? The subject? The viewer? The context in which it is shown? Or something totally different? It can be any or all of these, and the diversity of lesbian photography seems to defy a clear-cut definition.
However, there are photographers whose work clearly deals with lesbian issues. By making lesbians visible, their images both reveal and construct a lesbian cultural identity.
It is this self-representation that is the focus of this website. Looking at the work of lesbian photographers, their way of depicting lesbians will be discussed and examples of their images will be given.
The overview of lesbian photographers is divided into five sections, all of which contain subsections about individual artists. The subsections roughly follow a timeline: becoming visible shows the beginnings of lesbian photography, private faces will try to present images made before the Women’s Liberation Movement, new women contains work of the 1970s, deconstruction concentrates on art made in the 1980s, and this is me focuses on photography in the 1990s.

This is from a site I found while looking for more work by Catherine Opie. I found this blurb particularly interesting in that it states "By making lesbians visible, their images both reveal and construct a lesbian cultural identity." That made me think of what we've been talking about with the construction of gender/identity and the double edged sword of claiming an identitiy. The site I found this on looks like it's great, i haven't had time to search through it in depth, but I thought I'd share it with you all. Hope you enjoy!