![]() The AGO brings together three extraordinary thinkers to discuss the history and legacy of these images. But then you kind of realize how exceptional they are as well, just for the subject matter alone.” “They are typical snapshots on the one hand - there they are on the front porch, there they are at a picnic, or at the diving board. Exhibiton co-curator Sophie Hackett, the AGO’s Associate Curator, Photography, says: “They are an amazing record of trans community in the becoming,” she says. The photographs, which were acquired into the AGO’s collection in 2015, have been widely hailed as a centrepiece of the exhibition. The Casa Susanna snapshots included in Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s - 1980s offer a compelling look at the lives of a group of cross-dressers at their weekend gathering place between the mid-1950s and early 1960s. ‘Maybe there’s something particularly American about that, this sense of confirmation of reality.’” -Macleans ‘They needed to document the reality of their lived existence in order for that experience to be complete,’ said Parsons. “.Perhaps the crown jewel of the AGO’s exhibit a collection of photos from “Casa Susanna,” a secreted-away New York compound where men would come to cross-dress, to cavort, to photograph each other to give proof of an existence they knew was real but felt they had to suffocate in American society.
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