"Herstory if Caught by the Camera's Eye:" Photographers of Oregon's Lesbian Lands

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dc.contributor.advisorScott, Emily
dc.contributor.authorRoot, Raechel
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-08T17:15:36Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-08
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the photography of Oregon’s lesbian land communities, through the Ovular workshops hosted at the lesbian land Rootworks from 1980 to 1983 and their subsequent magazine The Blatant Image (1981-1983). I argue that these photographs are crucial to developing, documenting and disseminating a queer ecological “culture of nature.” I analyze the photographs’ blending of the female body and the landscape, through Ruth Mountaingrove’s landscape- portraits, as well as a recognition of the land as female and erotic, typified by Tee Corinne’s Isis series. I argue that the photographs cultivate an intimate, circular sense of visibility through the print networks of The Blatant Image, and that their distribution is a tactic for suggesting alternative futures. Lastly, I reflect on the archival existence of these photographs in that future, and their subsequent engagement by contemporary artists such as Carmen Winant.en_US
dc.description.embargo2022-10-26
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25922
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectarten_US
dc.subjectfeminismen_US
dc.subjectfeminist arten_US
dc.subjectlesbian landsen_US
dc.subjectphotographyen_US
dc.subjectqueer ecologyen_US
dc.title"Herstory if Caught by the Camera's Eye:" Photographers of Oregon's Lesbian Lands
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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