‘I railed against the stereotype of the humourless lesbian’: the cheeky, feminist photography of Jill Posener
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TLDRMore than 40 years after Jill Posener immortalised a graffitied Fiat billboard with a big fuck you to the establishment, a new retrospective celebrates a 50-year career of cheeky, feminist photography and social justice.
If it were a lady it would get its bottom pinched. If this lady was a car she’d run you down.” These are the words that Jill Posener immortalised in November 1979, when she picked her way through traffic on London’s Farringdon Road to photograph something most would have overlooked: a graffitied billboard. The first sentence was there by design – a sexist attempt at wit intended to promote a new F
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