num_pages: 100
description: The idea of gender is no long as fixed as it once was: Tootsie, La Cage aux Folles, and Milton Berle saw to that. But none of this has prepared us for Loren Cameron's amazing portraits of transsexuals. Beautifully reproduced and complemented with notes and short essays, these portraits of women who are now men may startle, but they will also make you marvel at the genuine complexities of life, sex, and desire. Body Alchemy might have been a curiosity, like Diane Arbus's photographs of those outside the physical and cultural mainstream, but Cameron's art is so empathetic, so precise, that we are left in awe and with a new understanding of the realities of being human.
language: English
title: Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
titlecomplete: Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
genres: Gender and Sexuality, Transgender, Art, Gender, Nonfiction, Gender Studies, Photography, Queer, Queer Studies, LGBT
ratings_count: 323
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Small Press Book
publisher: Cleis Press