Loren Rex Cameron (born August 28, 1959) is an American photographer, author and transgender activist. His work includes portraits and self-portraits consisting of transsexual bodies in both clothed and nude form.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Photography
- 2.1 THE RED HORSE [Unabridged MP3-CD] by Loren Robinson, (Expedition Series, Book 6), Read by Cameron Beierle
- 2.2 Marriage of Unconvenience
- 2.3 Say Anything
- 2.4 Is It Just Me?
- 2.5 Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
- 2.6 Scarface (Anniversary Edition) [VHS]
- 2.7 Executive Suite: A Novel
- 2.8 The Circuit
- 2.9 Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam for Video Conferencing, Recording, and Streaming - Black
- 2.10 Rubie's Star Wars: The Force Awakens Child's Kylo Ren Half Helmet, Black
Biography
Loren Rex Cameron was born in Pasadena, California on August 28, 1959. In 1969, after his mother’s death, he moved to rural Arkansas to live on his father’s farm.[citation needed] By the age of 16, Cameron identified as a lesbian and encountered homophobia in the small town where he lived. At this time, Cameron quit theoretical and left house to seek work as a construction worker and further blue collar employment.[citation needed] In 1979, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he identified socially similar to the lesbian community until the age of 26, when he confronted his dissatisfaction taking into account his body and was excluded from the lesbian community. Cameron’s captivation in photography coincided afterward the coming on of his transition from female to male, which he documented photographically. In 1993 Cameron began studying the basics of photography and started photographing the transsexual community. Since 1994, he has resolved lectures upon his do something at universities, educational conferences and art institutes. By 1995, Cameron’s photographs had been shown in solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles.
Photography
Cameron’s photography and writing was first published by Cleis Press in 1996. His first published works (Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits and Man Tool: The Nuts and Bolts of Female-to-Male Surgery) consist largely of self-portraits, and portraits of extra female to male transsexuals. Body Alchemy documented Cameron’s personal experience of transition from female to male, his dynamism as a man, and the everyday lives of trans men he knew. The nude figures’ poses in the artist’s photography often picture moments of put on an act and performance. In many of his self portraits, he includes the shutter-release bulb that he used to take the photograph. The substitute to fake alone and feature the bulb serves as a commentary on the self-made aspect of inborn transsexual. His photography shows how the issues of queer bioethics come happening not without help in clinical sites but as well as in public art and museum spaces. His feint was expected to separate the clinical view of transsexual bodies and redefine them as not in infatuation of a cure. Body Alchemy became a double 1996 Lambda Literary Award winner. It remains his most Famous work to date, though he has since published new photographic works. More recently published behave includes representation of both female and male transsexuals, portraits and classical nudes (Body Photographs by Loren Cameron Volume 1 and 2.
Cameron’s piece of legislation was first shown as part of a 1994 exhibit in San Francisco. His images have next been exhibited in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, in Santiago, Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in Mexico City.[citation needed] They have been published in numerous books such as Constructing Masculinity: Discussions in Contemporary Culture and Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors.[citation needed] He has furthermore posed for photographers such as Daniel Nicoletta, Amy Arbus, and Howard Shatz.[citation needed] Cameron has lectured at universities across the United States, including Smith College, Harvard, Cornell, Brown, the University of California at Berkeley, Penn State, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[citation needed] In May 2008, Cameron presented his sham at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He was profiled on the Discovery Health Channel’s LGBT-themed special Sex Change: Him to Her, and upon the National Geographic Channel’s Taboo “Sexual Identity” series. He was moreover interviewed in The New Yorker magazine.
Last update 2021-08-06