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Joan E Biren, butch lesbian photographer, comments, “This photo has been called one of the best-loved images in Dykedom,” JEB says. “In the seventies and eighties, you would go into a lesbian house and this image would be on the wall. It was the most reproduced, most recognizable lesbian image for years. These are real lesbians making love—Tee used a process called solarization that not only protected their privacy but captured the uniqueness of lesbian sex. Tee’s work was a huge influence on me and many other women artists. It was so radical and revolutionary at the time. To be able to make an image of lovemaking that is tender but also sexual is not easy. Tee was an amazing photographer in her understanding of what was erotic. She wanted her photographs to be beautiful in a big and powerful way. She understood that explicit sexual imagery like this made lesbian existence undeniable.”