Description: Brings together a wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs to create an enduring account of America's first-known trans network, Casa Susanna.
Brief description: Isabelle Bonnet is an independent curator, currently completing a thesis in history/visual culture devoted to the crime scene in contemporary photography.
Review Quotes: A sumptuous volume of photography that chronicles a midcentury trans enclave . . . Open[s] up a whole world in a few hundred pages. The sheer volume of pictures included will open eyes to the existence of trans people before the contemporary age.-- "BookPage (starred review)" (12/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)