Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus among many others have all trained their lenses on the transgendered figure. Never have the transgendered seriously photographed their own. Not until Loren Cameron, that is. Kate Bornstein, author, Gender Outlaw Loren Camerons razor-sharp vision compels us to focus on the complex transition from which transsexual men emerge. Camerons photographs are as exquisite as they are meaningful. Leslie Feinberg, author, Stone Butch Blues
An irreplaceably valued documentation of a cultural moment.... Diane Middlebrook, author, ....Camerons strategy is to... allow his subjects to speak for themselves, creating an informative and emotional document that is likely the first of its kind. Barbara DeGenevieve, Camerawork At just the moment post modernism would have us believe there is nothing photography hasnt already shown us, Loren Camerons images defy all expectations. Welcome to the future. Doug Nickel, Photography critic Photography/Gender studies. 120 Pages. 8/5" X 10" |
Loren Cameron is the author of multiple books about transsexuality. Please click to see Man Tool: The Nuts and Bolts of Female-to-Male Surgery (Zero eBooks 2001), and click to see Photographs by Loren Cameron Volumes 1 and 2, and Volume 3: Correspondence 1997-2001 (Taller Experimental Cuerpos Pintados 2003)