Tee Corinne: A Retrospective
Charlotte Flint’s new book on the feminist photographer who changed our eyes
Tee Corinne was an artist whom you could soberly call a revolutionary. She was a good friend. She was the first woman, worldwide, to showcase not just women’s art history, (painting, sculpture, multi-media) but lesbian artists in particular.
Her vision was remarkable and she was mad as hell that the art establishment— an old-fashioned term, but apt— was having none of it. She was the author of perhaps the best DIY art book ever published, “The Cunt Coloring Book.”
Tee had an unshakeable faith that one day she’d be a towering historical art figure, and indeed, it’s finally happening.
A new book edited by English art editor and curator Charlotte Flint, Tee A. Corinne: A Forest Fire Between Us explores Corinne’s archives and considers what it meant to be a genre-changing photographer in the 1960s and 1970s— who it can fairly be said, brooked no compromise.
Corinne was a contemporary of Yoko Ono, of Nikki de Saint Phalle. Her famous “ovulars” — women’s art photography and darkroom seminars — were akin to Betty Dodson’s “liberating masturbation” seminars. Women had simply not done those things before.