Aug 17, 2023 - Sale 2644

Sale 2644 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

JEB (JOAN E. BIREN) (1944 - )


Kady and Pagan, Monticello, New York.
Silver print on RC paper, the image measuring 152x229 mm; 6x9 inches, the sheet 203x254 mm; 8x10 inches, with JEB's signature, title, negative date, and the date the print was signed in ink, and her address label with a copyright date 1979 also in ink, on verso. 1978.

This vintage print was made by JEB. Kady Van Deurs was the author of The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me: The Autobiography of a Lesbian (1978) and Panhandling Papers (1989), a collection of excerpts, essays, letters, and drawings. Kady and Pagan lived together in a small cabin in the woods.

A different photograph of them together appears on the cover of JEB's book, Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, originally published in 1979 by Glad Hag Books and reissued by Anthology Editions in 2021.