Lives Visible

Lesbians in a box two thousand private snapshots hidden away for over fifty years reveal the rich history of Chicagos working class butchfem life in the preStonewall era Spanning four decades from the 1930s to the early 1970s the snapshots provide a rare look at a vanished and vibrant Lesbian culture images of lovers and friends as they played posed serially switched partners worked partied drank and aged Now we all take selfies these women used a Brownie camera to tell the story of their community LIVES VISIBLE explores the ephemeral nature of culture and the power of the images we make