Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits

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Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
Author Loren Cameron
Cover artist Loren Cameron and Bernie Schimbke
Country USA
Language English
Genre(s) Autobiography, photography
Publisher Cleis Press
Publication date 1996
Pages 110
ISBN ISBN 978-1-57344-062-2

Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits (1996) is a book collecting photographs and writing of Loren Cameron. It documents the process of transition and everyday lives of the author and other transmen.

Contents

[edit] The book

Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits was met with much positive criticism for its intimate yet respectful portrayal of transmen, and was a double 1996 Lambda Literary Award winner.[1][2] It remains a milestone on the subject of FTM documentary and a book referred to in other works on transsexualism.[3]

[edit] Table of Contents/Chapters

  1. Introduction
  2. Self-Portraits
  3. God's Will
  4. Distortions
  5. The New Man Series
  6. Our Bodies
  7. Fellas
  8. Emergence
  9. Duo

[edit] References and footnotes

  1. ^ Online Alchemy's book section, citing some of the reviews.
  2. ^ Lambda Literary Foundation :: LL Awards Recipients :: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
  3. ^ Amazon.com book details ("Citations"), January 27, 2007.

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