Vladimir Nabokov
[Writer, b. 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 1977, Montreux, Switzerland.]
...photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall.
Tee Corinne
[Photographer and artist, b. 1943, St. Petersburg, Florida, d. 2006, Sunny Valley, Oregon.]
One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton or J. Frederick Smith, I ran the risk of reinforcing negative myths, i.e. that lesbians are women who cannot attract men because they do not conform to society’s standard of beauty.
Flor Garduño
[Photographer, b. 1957, Mexico City, lives in Stabio, Switzerland.]
Each picture... is a small legend about beauty, sex, wonder, and women’s intimate lives.
John Berger
[Writer and critic, b. 1926, London, d. 2017, Paris.]
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
