One thing that strikes me in this regard, and in the examples provided by you below, is that there has been over time a change in the way in which fans adopted pseudonymity between the period of in-print zines and the internet age. I have work in print zines from the late 1980s and early 1990s under my legal name, and many of the women in the pictures you provide below will have probably done the same. And indeed my first forays into fandom on the internet were also carried out under my legal name -- in those days one often got an email via one's school, for example, and the kind of services which allowed you to get a second one were still coming into existence. Within a few years I had adopted an early version of the pseud I currently use, as it became normal for people to sever the connection between their fannish activites and their other online activities. I think it may be the case now that the internet cultures among many groups have shifted away from pseudonymity -- but for many people involved in the history of fandom in the internet era it remains a strongly held ideal. I don't think that it would be historically sensitive to paper over that norm in an attempt to "skip" from two very different less-pseudonymous cultures.
Material in those early days was less widely distributed, and distributed in different ways. I remember the days of zines with different editions for gen or low-rated het material, explicit het material, and any form of slash. Being a Star Trek fan was not strongly associated with being a producer or consumer of pornography. Fanfiction, and the culture which surrounds it, has changed a great deal over this time -- as has the internet. The searchability of images, of face-recognitions software, etc. does I think mean that people are right to be more cautious of the ways in which their own images and the images of others are distributed. The concerns of individuals photographed in the (say) 1980s and 1990s -- a period when I was certainly attending cons and being photographed -- will necessarily have changed to reflect the changed ways in which that material is now able to be disseminated. This is in itself a part of our history.
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Material in those early days was less widely distributed, and distributed in different ways. I remember the days of zines with different editions for gen or low-rated het material, explicit het material, and any form of slash. Being a Star Trek fan was not strongly associated with being a producer or consumer of pornography. Fanfiction, and the culture which surrounds it, has changed a great deal over this time -- as has the internet. The searchability of images, of face-recognitions software, etc. does I think mean that people are right to be more cautious of the ways in which their own images and the images of others are distributed. The concerns of individuals photographed in the (say) 1980s and 1990s -- a period when I was certainly attending cons and being photographed -- will necessarily have changed to reflect the changed ways in which that material is now able to be disseminated. This is in itself a part of our history.