
Casa Susanna
- Publisher
- Textuel
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 9780500297902
- Specifications
- Softcover
18 × 25.5 cm
480 pages
250 illustrations
Edited by Sophie Hackett and Isabelle Bonnet
Text by Susan Stryker
This volume presents a body of pictures found at a New York flea market in 2004. In each of these archive images from the 1950s and 1960s one or more men cross-dress and take on the appearance of women. They met every year from 1959 to 1968 at the house of the owner of the pictures, Susanna, where they lived freely as women and photographed one another as such; some of them were making their gender transition in the same period. The book takes the name of that place, Casa Susanna, and brings together the whole set of pictures along with reproductions of Transvestia, the clandestine magazine they published and circulated at the time, and a text by Susan Stryker. Its publication echoes the exhibition of the same name held in Arles during the 2023 Rencontres de la Photographie.