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Book Launch, Talk & Signing, Flora Dunster: Hurled Towards the Future - Lesbian Photography and Queer Imagination in 1980s London

Thu 4 Jun Free The Photographers' Gallery

Flora Dunster will present her new book Hurled Towards the Future: Lesbian Photography and Queer Imagination in 1980s London in the Cafe Bar and Bookshop. Flora will be joined in conversation by Amy Tobin, and will be signing copies of her book. In Hurled Towards the Future: Lesbian Photography and Queer Imagination in 1980s London Flora Dunster explores how lesbian photographers in late 1980s and early 1990s London worked within a climate of resistance and possibility to imagine—and create—a queer future. Focusing on the work of Tessa Boffin and Del LaGrace Volcano, this book argues that, through their photography, these artists made a critical contribution to the reclamation of “queer” as both a political identification and an aesthetic practice. Flora Dunster is a London-based writer, researcher and Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, where she is Course Leader of MA Contemporary Photography and Theory. Her work centres on critical histories and theories of photography, and in particular queer and lesbian work in the UK during the 1980s and 90s. She is author of Hurled Towards the Future: Lesbian Photography and Queer Imagination in 1980s London (Paul Mellon Centre/Yale...