History of queer photographer Alice Austen from @hyperallergic
The speaker introduces photographer Alice Austen using a famous photo as a hook, then details her life in the Gilded Age, her relationship with Gertrude Tate, and the eventual recognition of her home as an LGBTQ+ historic site.
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Transcript
Do you know the photographer behind this famous queer photo? Alice Austen was one of very few women photographers from the Gilded Age who took thousands of pictures celebrating queer identity and love in her family's stately Staten Island home. In In addition to a ton of street photography that showed immense inequality between the rich and poor of the day, she took photos of her and her friends in drag, in queer embraces, in just their undergarments, and just generally goofing off. When she was
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