Lesbians unleashed! The joyous, sexually explicit photographer no publisher would touch
Tee A Corinne took fearless shots of same-sex lovers in a 1980s Oregon commune β and published a notoriously intimate colouring book that became a minor classic. Has her time come at last?
In 1993, Tee A Corinne wrote that she was βclose to being finished with sexual imageryβ. Corinne was a prolific multimedia artist, activist, photographer and writer of erotica and autobiography. Much of her work involved what she called βlabia imagery and β¦ images of women making love with other women or with themselvesβ. After three decades of this, however, she was thinking about moving on. βI have thought this before but changed my mind,β she wrote. βWhy? Because no one else was making the images I wanted to see.β
The images Corinne made, in part because nobody else was doing it, remain extraordinary, invigorating and quietly radical. Her Artistβs 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 Corinneβs considerable body of work and the ephemera surrounding it.
Continue reading...Β© Photograph: Β© Tee A. Corinne / Tee A. Corinne Papers, Coll. 263. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Archives, from Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us (MACK, 2024). Courtesy of MACK and University of Oregon Archives.
Β© Photograph: Β© Tee A. Corinne / Tee A. Corinne Papers, Coll. 263. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Archives, from Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us (MACK, 2024). Courtesy of MACK and University of Oregon Archives.