Body Alchemy

Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
Author Loren Cameron
Cover artist Loren Cameron and Bernie Schimbke
Country United States
Language English
Genre Autobiography, photography
Publisher Cleis Press
Publication date
1996
Pages 110
ISBN 978-1-57344-062-2
OCLC 34850194
305.3 20
LC Class HQ77.95.U6 C36 1996

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

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]

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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