Art monograph on Brittany Nelson’s abstract photography, linking queer isolation, feminist SF, and space exploration.
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Art monograph on Brittany Nelson’s abstract photography, linking queer isolation, feminist SF, and space exploration.
Brittany Nelson appropriates and distorts processes from 19th century photography to question representation as photographic ideal. In chemically manipulating traditional techniques, such as mordançage and tintype, she causes unprecedented reactions in the materials, which result in extraordinary abstract imagery. In continuation of feminist and queer abstraction, she unfetters photography's constraints of resemblance to real-world referents, to include technological utopias, spaceflight and tim...
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Thematic mention of lesbian desire via Tiptree; no on-page sex
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Queer abstraction, lesbian desire, and queer isolation are core focus
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No fantasy magic present
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Feminist SF, queer politics, critique of heteronormative limits
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Brief reference to misogyny in science fiction circles
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