Publisher's Synopsis
JEB (Joan E. Biren) first introduced readers to her extraordinary photography in 1979 when she published Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, a radically intimate affirmation of the lives of women who love women. Over the ensuing decade, JEB's practice expanded alongside the parameters of lesbian visibility, and her work grew to include communities of poets and filmmakers, politicians and physicians, mothers and daughters. The result was 1987's Making a Way: Lesbians Out Front, a second volume of portraits no less revolutionary for their warmth and humanity. Making a Way includes more than a hundred images of lesbians at home and work, with partners and with allies, in thoughtful solitude and at the vanguard of political change-all illuminated by JEB's camera in a spirit of loving collaboration. Featuring a collection of stories, remarks, and remembrances by each of JEB's muses, as well as new essays by Cheryl Clarke and JD Samson, this reissue of Making a Way marks the long-overdue return of a passionately committed and vitally impactful vision. Comment end
