Name/Title
Blatant ImageEntry/Object ID
2024.4.5Secondary Title
A Magazine of Feminist PhotographyDescription
A publication devoted to feminist photography. Issue 2 (1982) has photos by Noel Giordano (now Furie) from Bloodroot in Bridgeport, CT.
HOLDINGS:
Issue #1, 1981; Issue #2, 1982; Issue #3, 1983.Context
"The Blatant Image" was published by an editorial collective out of Sunny Valley, Oregon between 1981 and 1983. The journal featured photographs deemed "too personal or too political" to appeal to mainstream publications. Scores of mostly amateur women photographers responded to calls for submissions placed in "Ms." magazine and other feminist and Lesbian periodicals. It was a forum for women to share what they'd recorded "in our festivals, in our rituals, in our conferences, in our kitchens and bedrooms, in our offices and workshops," according to editor Ruth Mountaingrove, who went on to say, "When we photograph women as we see them, as no one has seen them before, we make these things real - we change the way of seeing, and in so doing, we change the world." The photographs in "The Blatant Image" were seen as consciousness-raising tools and "interventions into patriarchal modes of representation." They presented a new type of woman to readers, one independent of men, living her life on her own terms. The ideal woman was presented as a Lesbian following her authentic self and encouraging readers to do the same.Publication Details
Publication Type
MagazinePublisher
The Blatant ImageISSN
0277-8181Relationships
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Place
* Untyped Place
Sunny Valley, ORGeneral Notes
Note Type
Cataloging NoteNote
Duplicates of Issue #2, 1982 and Issue #3, 1983.Create Date
June 14, 2024Update Date
March 21, 2026