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The Art Newspaper

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Coinciding with Pride Month in the US—and a wave of political hostility towards LGBTQ+ communities—the Getty Center has a timely new exhibition reflecting on queer identity through the history of photography, from the 19th century to the digital present.

Since the medium’s inception, “photography has allowed for the gradual proliferation of homosexual and homosocial pictures”, says Paul Martineau, the curator of Queer Lens: A History of Photography. “We are very lucky because there is still a large amount of evidence,” he adds, “even though much has been destroyed,” due to government censorship and social repression.

Martineau’s six-year curatorial effort included sifting through thousands of photographs to select the final group of 300 in the show. He acknowledges the particular challenge of finding pre-1970 queer imagery, which has often been censored or lost, or never circulated in the first place. The Comstock Act of 1873 prohibited “indecent or immoral” material from being sent through the US postal system. “Families would often destroy letters and photographs that showed evidence of homosexual relationships,” Martineau says.

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