Casa Susanna

by Hurst, Michel Swope, Robert

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Title Statements

Full title :Casa Susanna / edited by Michel Hurst and Robert Swope.

Summary

Casa Susanna is a fun and fabulous collection of found photography, shot some four decades ago, of a "safe haven" of weekend cross-dressers in the early 60s. While at a New York flea market, inveterate collectors Michel Hurst and Robert Swope discovered a large body of snapshots: album after aged album of well-preserved images, depicting a group of cross-dressers united around a place called Casa Susanna, a rather large and charmingly banal Victorian-style house in what looked to be a.

Small-town in New Jersey. The inhabitants, visitors, guests, and hosts used it as a weekend headquarters for a regular "girl's life." Someone--probably "Susanna" or the matriarch--nailed a wonder board on a tree proclaiming it "Casa Susanna," and thus a Queendom was born. There is an evident pleasure of being here, at Casa Susanna, that is a liberation, a simplification of the conflicts inherent in a double life.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):PowerHouse Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:1 v. (unpaged) : : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; : 27 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1576872416, 9781576872413
oclc:ocm55600667
LC Classification:HQ77
Dewey Decimal:306.77

Subjects

Cross-dressers Cross-dressers -- Pictorial works illustrated books Illustrated works Ouvrages illustrés Pictorial works Travestis -- Ouvrages illustrés