Jessica Tanzer
| Jessica Tanzer | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 28, 1966 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | USA |
| 🏫 Education | San Francisco Art Institute, 1987-1991 |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Woman-created erotic photographs |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Alexx Conroy, 2004-present |
| ❤️ Partner(s) | Michele Fisher, 1986-1989 |
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Jessica Tanzer (born March 28, 1966) is an American photographer.
Background[edit]
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Tanzer has lived in San Francisco since 1987. She attended San Francisco Art Institute from 1987-1991, and has exhibited in California, Washington, Ohio, and New York, and has been published in the U.S., UK, Holland, Finland, Germany, and Australia.[1].
Career[edit]
Tanzer was an active member of Queer Nation and ACT UP San Francisco; she used photography to document the racially diverse young activists of that movement from 1987 through the 1990s. During the same time, she created lesbian and bisexual erotic images for the magazine On Our Backs. Tanzer's black and white studio images contributed a distinctive body of work during a formative and exploratory period of woman-created erotica. Her art joined the work and thought of other feminists, largely on the West Coast, that inspired a newly defined sex-positive feminism. The British magazine Quim featured her images on the cover twice[2]. Art critic Dorothy Shinn compared Tanzer's style to Robert Mapplethorpe's[3]
Cornell University Library's Sexuality Collection archives her erotic and queer photographic work and used her photographs "The Box" (1990) and "Caution" as the lead images for its 2014 exhibition "Speaking of Sex."
References[edit]
- ↑ Nothing but the girl : the blatant lesbian image : a portfolio and exploration of lesbian erotic photography. Bright, Susie; Posener, Jill. New York, NY: Freedom Editions. 1996. ISBN 978-1860470011. OCLC 34793765. Search this book on
- ↑ Quim magazine. For dykes of all sexual persuasions. (Winter 1991). London.
- ↑ Shinn, Dorothy (April 24, 1994). "Exhibit a Postmodernism Clinic \ It's in a 'Mixed Bag" at In Collaboration Gallery". Akron Beacon Journal (OH). Retrieved March 8, 2019.
External links[edit]
- Jessica Tanzer's Instagram Feed
- Speaking of Sex, exhibition featuring Tanzer's images
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