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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Rebecca Nicholson

Lesbians unleashed! The joyous, sexually explicit photographer no publisher would touch

‘No one else was making the images I wanted to see’ … from Corrine’s Oregon series.
‘No one else was making the images I wanted to see’ … from Corrine’s Oregon series. Photograph: © Tee A Corinne. Courtesy of MACK and University of Oregon Archives

In 1993, Tee A Corinne wrote that she was “close to being finished with sexual imagery”. Corinne was a prolific multimedia artist, activist, photographer and writer of erotica and autobiography. Much of her work involved what she called “labia imagery and … images of women making love with other women or with themselves”. After three decades of this, however, she was thinking about moving on. “I have thought this before but changed my mind,” she wrote. “Why? Because no one else was making the images I wanted to see.”

The images Corinne made, in part because nobody else was doing it, remain extraordinary, invigorating and quietly radical. Her Artist’s Statement: On Sexual Art is just one of many documents, posters, essays and letters gathered together by Charlotte Flint, editor of A Forest Fire Between Us, a new book collecting some of Corinne’s considerable body of work and the ephemera surrounding it.

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