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Ref NoBOFF/1/3
TitleAdministrative and promotional material (Tessa Boffin's published books)
DescriptionProvides information of tours regarding published material of Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS mythology (1990), edited with Sunil Gupta, and Stolen Glances: Lesbians take photographs,edited with Jean Fraser. The records include contracts, reviews and promotional material
Date1989-1993
Levelsubseries
RepositoryFarnham
RelatedNameCodeDS/UK/18
LocationBox No BOFF 2
AdminHistoryEcstatic Antibodies: Resisting the Aids mythology was co-edited with Sunil Gupta, (born in 1953, Photographer from India, New Delhi - http://www.sunilgupta.net/about.html) in 1990. This was an exhibition and book project about the representation of AIDS in the UK.

Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs, edited by Tessa Boffin and Jean Fraser in 1991. This includes Tessa's contribution to Stolen Glances, the Knight's Move. The Knight's Move was a series of black and white photographs, where characters were placed in a tableaux. The characters are of lesbians, including the Knight: 'She used this work to investigate the paucity of lesbian role models, and the needs to appropriate historical fictions for our own ends' (Smyth, Cherry 1996: 'Dyke! Fag! Centurion! Whore! an appreciation of Tessa Boffin;' In Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures,edited by Peter Horne and Reina Lewis


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CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/18Boffin; Tessa (1960-1993); Photographer1960-1993
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