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Glenn Ligon , A Feast of Scraps , 1994-1998

Glenn Ligon , A Feast of Scraps , 1994-1998.

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Glenn Ligon , A Feast of Scraps , 1994-1998

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  1. Glenn Ligon, A Feast of Scraps, 1994-1998

  2. We are taught that, if we feel we really must have a record of the shameful same-sex portions of our lives, then we should do so by having two albums, dual collections, one for blood relations and one for our same gender loving brothers and sisters. And they should not be allowed to intersect. Our orientation is meant to be isolated, separate from and alien to the lives we live with our ‘real’ families. Far too often, however, within this constellation of the ‘real,’ black gays and lesbians wonder if we will even be in the viewfinder when the family portrait is taken. glennligon

  3. Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, Untitled (Cahun in Mirror), ca. 1929 (detail) Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, Untitled (Moore in Mirror), ca. 1929

  4. The photographer’s shadow that regularly intrudes on the space of the photograph, the double exposures and mirror imaging, may be viewed as both uncanny and as intimations of an unseen collaboration, the “other me.” tirza true latimer

  5. Our two heads (hair intermingling inextricably) inclined over a photograph. Portrait of one or of the other, our two narcissisms drowning together here, it was the impossible realized in a magic mirror. Exchange, superimposition, the fusion of desires. The unity of the image achieved through the close intimacy of two bodies. claudecahun

  6. Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, I’m in Training, Don’t Kiss Me, ca. 1928

  7. Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, Self-Portrait with Mask, ca. 1928

  8. Aubrey Beardsley, The Peacock Skirt, 1894Oscar Wilde and Alfred Douglas, ca. 1893

  9. Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, “La réponse,” Vues et visions, 1919

  10. Kirsten McCrea, Gertrude Stein, from Hot Topic, 2006 – ongoingPablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, 1905-1906

  11. Man Ray, Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in the apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, 1922

  12. Alice Pike Barney, Natalie in Fur Cape, 1897Romaine Brooks, Natalie Barney, 1920

  13. Portrait of Natalie Clifford Barney and Romaine BrooksRomaine Brooks, Self Portrait, 1923

  14. A place where lesbian assignations and appointments with academics could coexist in a kind of cheerful, cross-pollinating cognitive dissonance. joanschenkar

  15. Portrait of Vanessa BellVanessa Bell, Self-portrait, ca. 1915

  16. Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf Knitting, ca. 1911Portrait of Clive Bell by Roger Fry, ca. 1924

  17. Portrait of Roger Fry by Vanessa Bell, 1912Portrait of Vanessa Bell by Roger Fry (date unknown)

  18. Portrait of Vanessa Bell by Duncan Grant, 1917Portrait of Duncan Grant by Vanessa Bell, 1920

  19. Portrait of Duncan Grant by David Garnett, 1915Portrait of David Garnett by Duncan Grant, 1930

  20. Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel No. 1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans, 1940-1941

  21. The Cotton ClubThe Savoy Club

  22. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a homosexual subculture, uniquely Afro-American in substance, began to take shape in New York’s Harlem. Throughout the so-called Harlem Renaissance period, roughly 1920 to 1935, black lesbians and gay men were meeting each other [on] street corners, socializing in cabarets and rent parties, and worshiping in church on Sundays, creating a language, a social structure, and a complex network of institutions. ericgarber

  23. Gladys Bentley (1907-1960)

  24. Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

  25. Stills from Looking for Langston, 1989 Directed by Isaac Julien

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