Photographer Alice Austen was the queer star of the Gilded Age Austen broke from convention to capture New York City street life through a Victorian lens — and to share 55 years with her partner, Gertrude Tate.

"[....] as one of America’s earliest and most adventurous women photographers and for her relationship with Gertrude Tate, which spanned more than half a century."

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