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Legal name: Cameron, Loren Rex
Other names: Cameron, Rex
Birthdate: 1959-03-13
Date of death: 2022-11-18
Gender: male
Occupations: photographer
artist
writer
transgender activist
Cause of death: suicide
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Pasadena, California, USA
Places of residence: Arkansas, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Place of death: Berkeley, California, USA
Associated Place (for map): California, USA

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Body alchemy : transsexual portraits by Loren Cameron

This book is a collection of striking and beautiful portraits and interviews with various trans people. I really cannot recommend this enough for anyone who has any interest in issues about gender, sexuality, or people's desire to change. I suspect anyone into body modification (tattoos, piercing, scarification, etc) woudl also find this a compelling book.

As a general note, some of the portraits have explicit nudity. If this bothers you, um..try reading Kate Bornstein first?

Oct 7, 2005