Truant: Photographs, 1970 – 1979
Estate of Barbara Hammer
Oct22Nov262017

Throughout the 1970s, filmmaker Barbara Hammer toured the United States, Africa, and Europe, making film after film about women and the lesbian experience, neither of which had seldom been seen by a woman, for women on screen before. She made a slew of now-legendary experimental films, including Sisters! (1973), Dyketactics (1974), Multiple Orgasm (1976), Sappho (1978), and Double Strength (1978), more or less inventing lesbian cinema at a time when such material had largely been relegated to the pornographic imagination of male artists and filmmakers. During this prolific period, Hammer photographed her travels, her lovers, moments of community and kinship between her collaborators on set, private and public performances, friends, strangers. In these photographs, most of which have never been exhibited before, Hammer’s work explodes traditional notions of female sexuality by showing it for what it is: complex, messy, abstract, human.

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Selected Works

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Folsom Street, San Francisco, 1973,

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Superdyke Pre-Production,

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Museum Visit with Marie, Germany, 1972,

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Self-Portrait, Baja California, 1974,

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Gloria's Eye, 1975,

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Back of the Truck, 1974,

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Baja Landscape, 1975,

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Shooting Sappho, Los Angeles, 1979,

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Shooting Sappho, Los Angeles, 1979 (2),

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Wrestling, Hornby Island, British Columbia, 1972,

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On the Road, Baja California, 1975,

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Party Time, Montreal, 1979,

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The Great Goddess performance, Berkeley, 1977,

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The Great Goddess performance, Berkeley, 1977 (2),

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Tee A. Corinne and me, San Francisco, 1976,

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Exhibitionism, Pre production "X," Berkeley, 1973,

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Exhibitionism, Preproduction "X", Berkeley, 1973 (2),

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Corky Wick and me, 1979,

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Sappho Production Meeting, Los Angeles, 1978,

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Friends, Northern California Coast, 1973,

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The Maiden from The Great Goddess (film), Mendocino, California, 1977,

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I've Got You, Hornby Island, British Columbia, 1975,

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South Fork Yuba River, California, 1973,

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Z. Budapest, 1975,

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Alone, Hornby Island, British Columbia, 1972,

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Bowsprit, Hornby Island, British Columbia, 1972,

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New Friend and Terry, Hornby Island, British Columbia, 1975,

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Vscape, On The Trail to Machu Picchu, 1979,

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