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This is a paper looking for a home at next year's meeting, if anyone is
working on a session proposal where it would fit...
Abstract:
>
> "Visual Images Research for 'Public Faces/Private Lives: Boston's Lesbian
> and Gay History'" The presentation will report on the challenge of
> conducting visual images research for Boston's first major public lesbian
> and gay history exhibit - "Public Faces/Private Lives" which opened at
the
> Boston Public Library in June 1996 and was subsequently installed at
Salem State College (October 1996) and the Boston Center for the Arts (June
> 1997). Difficulties in identifying images in "mainstream" repositories,
> particularly in uncatalogued or miscatalogued collections, the need to
> confront privacy and confidentiality issues, concealment and censorship
of
> collections, and the challenge of locating and obtaining the use of
> photographs from personal collections will be discussed. Images which
> stereotype lesbian, gay and transgender cultures - or confront these
> stereotypes - play a critical role in charting societal perceptions of an
> historically diverse urban community.
>
> The paper is somewhat closer to "History" than it is to "Art," but, there
> it is...
>
>Thanks,
Stephen Z. Nonack, Secretary
ARLIS/NE
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