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Jill Posener retrospective celebrates five decades of feminist photography
Jill Posener’s witty photographs and postcards used humour to challenge sexism, homophobia and conservative politics in Britain. A new retrospective at Glasgow School of Art recognises her 50-year career, extending beyond the image that made her best known.
In 1979, Posener photographed a sexist Fiat billboard that two women had altered with a feminist reply; she later made around 100 postcards of the image, and estimates more than a million have since been sold. The photograph returned to prominence in Tate Britain’s 2023 exhibition Women in Revolt, helping revive interest in Posener’s work. Stage and Street also covers her time with gay theatre company Gay Sweatshop, photographing party conferences for the Daily Mirror, and her 1987 series Dirty Girls Guide to London.
In short
- Posener’s feminist photo of altered Fiat advert became a widely sold postcard.
- A Glasgow retrospective surveys her 50-year career.
- Tate Britain’s 2023 exhibition helped renew interest in her work.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “‘I railed against the stereotype of the humourless lesbian’: the cheeky, feminist photography of Jill Posener”.