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Karen E. Lund 💙💛<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Natasha_Jay</span></a></span> Definitely earlier! </p><p>Alice Austen began taking photographs, including photos of herself, in the 1890s. </p><p>"Alice often took photographs of herself alone and in groups. This required her to compose an image under the focusing cloth and then move in front of the camera, releasing the shutter by squeezing a bulb attached to a rubber tube." </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AliceAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AliceAusten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Selfies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Selfies</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.gothamcenter.org/exhibits/alice-austen/the-art-and-craft-of-photography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gothamcenter.org/exhibits/alic</span><span class="invisible">e-austen/the-art-and-craft-of-photography</span></a></p>
Lizzie Ehrenhalt 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> I am coming to think of Alice Austen as the Diane Arbus of the 1890s. (To be fair, I should be thinking of Arbus as the Austen of the 1960s). Their eyes, their styles, their subjects--two peas in an exquisitely queer pod.</p><p><a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/story/fine-bright-day-the-photography-of-alice-austen/cQVxc52fBA5wJA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">artsandculture.google.com/stor</span><span class="invisible">y/fine-bright-day-the-photography-of-alice-austen/cQVxc52fBA5wJA</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/diane-arbus-best-photographs/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sleek-mag.com/article/diane-ar</span><span class="invisible">bus-best-photographs/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/AliceAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AliceAusten</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/DianeArbus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DianeArbus</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/QueerPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>QueerPhotography</span></a></p>
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