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We've gathered together all available books on lesbians in art and many photography books featuring lesbian imagery. These books celebrate the work of lesbian artists from many communities worldwide, something Rainbowsauce is more than happy to promote. If you know of any other books to add to this category, please email us and let us know.

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	All Books by Elizabeth Ashburn - Author of : Lesbian Art : An Encounter with Power (Art and Australia Book) Hardcover - 152 pages (August 1996) Craftsman House; ISBN: 9766410763 "Lesbian Photography and Art; Lesbian Art, An Encounter with Power, is probably closer to what was meant in the 1970s and 1980s by the phrase "lesbian community. Although it includes dildo and s/m images, the emphasis is on the breadth of visuals produced by fifty-five self-defined lesbians. Australian art professor and art department head Elizabeth Ashburn may well have created the textbook she has longed to teach from. You can feel the solidness of her knowledge, her love of the work, the evolving lesbian culture, and the women who produced it. (thanks to Tee A. Corinne)" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Chloe Atkins - Author of : Atkins : Girls' Night Out (Stonewall Inn Book - Photographer Series) Hardcover - 64 pages 1st stonew edition (April 1998) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312180446 "Lesbian Photography and Art; For a decade Chloe Atkins has been part of the San Francisco lesbian nightlife. She has regularly photographed the women in attendance at several area nightclubs and lesbian events. Girls' Night Out, the result of her work, is a portrait of women at play-a sexy, often whimsical, occasionally sensual, and completely joyful look at nightlife lesbians in all their diversity." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Joani Blank - Author of : I Am My Lover : Women Pleasure Themselves Paperback 2 edition (March 1998) Down There Pr; ISBN: 0940208180 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "If anyone understands female masturbation, it's Joani Blank, founder of San Francisco's Good Vibrations, a woman-friendly sex-toy shop. Her previous books, Femalia and First Person Sexual established her as one of the top chroniclers of the next wave in the sexual evolution of women. I Am My Lover watches ...closely ... while twelve women get themselves off using fingers, dildos, vibrators, and their own imaginations; black and white photographs of the women taken by Annie Sprinkle, Michael Rosen, Phyllis Christopher and others provide us with images of our own to contemplate. Although Blank calls this "the last taboo," photos of women masturbating are commonplace in porn. The difference here is that these women don't seem to be doing this for anyone but themselves. Perhaps it's because, for the most part, they aren't the lacquered teenage breast-implantees one finds in the pages of various men's magazines. Or perhaps it's just that they look like they're having fun sometimes. Whatever, the photos certainly capture nuances of the act that may fascinate women who've never seen another woman masturbate (or have never done it themselves), or men curious about the workings of female sexuality minus the presence of a partner. The interesting facial expressions of the women easily hold their own against the ... ahem ... other body parts." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Susie Bright and Jill Posener - Author of : Nothing But The Girl; The Blatant Lesbian Image Paperback (1999) Cassell Academic; ISBN: 186047005X "Lesbian Photography and Art; Images From Influential Lesbian Photographers Worldwide - This beautifully produced book contains the landmark work of Morgan Gwenwald, Della Grace, Diana Blok, Tee A. Corrine, Jill Posener, Honey Lee Cottrell, and others. Each portfolio is accompanied by an in-depth biography of the artist in which she discusses some of the themes which have fueled their work. 150+ photos." Click to buy this book in:	Samy's Pick!!
	All Books by Judy Francesconi - Author of : Visual Sonnets Paperback: 110 pages (October 1, 2000) Shake-It-Up Productions; ISBN: 0962995924 "Lesbian Photography and Art; Francesconi captures dreamy, lush, stylized images of women loving women. The over 70 duo tone photographs of mostly couples, many nude, in this collection are quite lovely, and the narrative is equally romantic." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Harmony Hammond - Author of : Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History Hardcover: 208 pages (August 2000) Rizzoli International Publications; ISBN: 0847822486 *~~ Featured Book ~~* "Lesbian Art and Photography; It is no surprise to see a photograph by Catherine Opie on the front of this handsome and groundbreaking volume on lesbian art. Opie is now represented in most of the best public collections in America, and her inclusion, along with the current rise of Nicole Eisenman, suggests that the market for specifically lesbian imagery (as opposed to erotica, which has always had an audience) has finally widened to include the great art institutions that still set the canon for contemporary art. Although the text of Harmony Hammond's wonderfully rich book is a little too dense for casual consumption, the history she offers--especially of the middle decade represented here, the 1980s, with its porn wars and the emergence of both postmodernism and post feminism alongside a remarkable boom in the art market--can be found nowhere else, and certainly not in so graceful a form, lavishly illustrated and perceptively annotated. - Regina Marler (with thanks to Amazon.com)." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Diane Mariechild and Marcelina Martin - Author of : Lesbian Sacred Sexuality Paperback - 144 pages (August 1995) Wingbow Pr; ISBN: 0914728814 "Lesbian Photography and Art; The groundbreaking book, Lesbian Sacred Sexuality, opened a wave of books depicting explicit erotic photographs of lesbian couples. Hailed as a celebration of erotic love between women; an initiation into the creative female spirit, the feminine mysteries; a brilliant collection of photographs, poetics and prose exploring lesbian lovemaking at its most passionate and profound, LSS is now in its' second printing. Even in today's more open climate, finding lesbians who have experienced their sexuality as a doorway to the Sacred and are willing to be photographed is a challenge. Diane and I made a wonderful beginning by choosing as subjects women of varying ages, races and body types. Lesbian Sacred Sexuality is as fresh today as it was hot off the press.. (thanks to Marcelina Martin - photographer extraordinaire!)" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Michelle Olley - Author of : Femmes: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography Paperback - 224 pages (January 9, 2002) Thunder's Mouth Press; ISBN: 1560253665 "Lesbian Photography and Art; Erotic imagery of lesbians, featuring various fetishes, black and white photography." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Tee Corinne and Tamsin Wilton - Authors of : Intimacies Hardcover - 80 pages (February 9, 2002) Last Gasp of San Francisco ; ISBN: 0867195266 "Lesbian Photography and Art; Exploring a lesbian-centered aesthetic, it is a compilation of erotic, solarized photographs." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jaye Zimet - Author of : Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-69 Paperback - 160 pages (August 1999) Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140284028 "Lesbian Photography and Art; A vivid, sexy, and titillating journey into the steamy underworld of the dime novel. In the scandalous world of pulp fiction in the 1950s and into the 60s, detectives, gangsters, and mad doctors were joined on the racks by bad girls, dissolute youths, drug-crazed beatniks, and other assorted miscreants and misfits. Where romance met with soft porn there was also a surprisingly large population of butch brunettes pursuing and seducing blond femmes. This was an alternate universe of erotic pulp fiction where gals and dolls were exploring the illicit pleasures of lesbian love--much to the delight of a largely male, heterosexual readership. Before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, these books offered a thrilling peek into the deviant underworld of wild passion and scandalous sex. Strange Sisters is a collection of the cover art of these wildly wicked novels. The women who writhe across the covers of books such as Strange Lust ("She Wanted a Woman--Then She Met Another Woman Obsessed by the Same Burning Hunger") and Women's Barracks ("The Frank Autobiography of a French Girl Soldier") sizzle with sexual energy and freedom--in a high-camp defiance of the prudish, conservative 1950s. Bold, kitschy-colorful, and fraught with sexual tension, the covers of Strange Sisters are a siren call to the retro-groovin' man, or woman, in your life." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:

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