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Early career: The Furies and photography
JEB’s first ever book was titled Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians (1979) and it was considered a revolutionary work for its era. The book showcased JEB’s collection of photographs that she took of lesbians from different backgrounds and ages in the United States living their daily lives. Photographs that were included in her book were of lesbians in their homes embracing each other, raising a family together, and showing that they were in love. Alongside the photographs, JEB included their names and writings of their personal stories of their everyday lives.

JEB’s vision for her book was to change the way society viewed lesbians and to allow lesbians to see themselves being represented in a book. The publication of her book helped with the revolution of the lesbian movement that was occurring in the 1970s and 1980s allowing her to travel to bookstores that sold her work and even universities that requested JEB to give presentations about her book and to describe her writing and filming process as a lesbian feminist photographer.