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Barbara Hammer Read Bio Collapse
Barbara Hammer Read Bio Collapse
Barbara Hammer was born in 1939 in Hollywood, California. She lived and worked in New York until her death in 2019. With a career spanning fifty years, Barbara Hammer is recognized as a pioneer of queer cinema. Working primarily in film and video, Hammer created a groundbreaking body of experimental work that illuminates lesbian histories, lives, and representations. Hammer has stated: “My work makes these invisible bodies and histories visible. As a lesbian artist, I found little existing representation, so I put lesbian life on this blank screen, leaving a cultural record for future generations.”
e-flux Criticism
Posted: September 29, 2014
Category
Photography, Film
Subjects
Memory
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 24, 2011
Category
Feminism
Subjects
Money & Finance, Minimalism & Post-Minimalism