Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits

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.

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. It remains a milestone on the subject of FTM documentary and a book referred to in other works on transsexualism.

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

References and footnotes

External links

• (author's official page, publishes some photos from the book)

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