American Boys

The American Boys project is an in-depth photographic book of young Americans across the country united through their expression of trans masculine gender identity.

About the author

Soraya Zaman is an Australian photographer based in New York. Their work primarily explores notions of sexuality and gender.

Summary

American Boys is a book of portraits capturing the trans-masculine community across the United States. The young Americans featured in these pages are united through their proud embrace of gender identity. Both tender and exciting these portraits are evidence of the rapidly expanding conceptions of gender sweeping the country.

Foreword

Andrea Smith, Publicist National print and online campaign Social Media campaign Promotion through: www.daylightbooks.org


Photo magazines: Aperture, Photo District News, Professional Photographer, Rangefinder, Shutterbug, The Photo Review, British Journal of Photography, Photographer’s Forum, among others.

General interest publications that cover books, art, culture, LGBT issues: The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Smithsonian, Vice, New York Review of Books, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, etc.

LGBTQ/Human Rights: Media geared towards the LGBTQ community and specifically transgender males, Out, Advocate, them. (conde nast channel for LGBTQ people), etc

Newspapers in top markets for LGBTQ community: New York, San Francisco, Portland, Austin, Providence, RI, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, Orlando, etc.

Trade press: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal

Blogs/Online: Hyperallergic , The Huffington Post (Gay Voices), The Daily Beast, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, aCurator, Musee magazine, We-Heart, etc.

Australian media (to be researched (photographer is from here)

NPR Radio (local and national)

Additional text

“...helping to expand our perceptions of the trans-masculine community…”,
- i-D, June 22, 2018
"...beautiful and profound...",
- The Daily Beast, April 6, 2019

Product details

• Authors: Buck Angel, Soraya Zaman
• Assisted by: Soraya Zaman (Photographs), Zaman Soraya (Photographs), Buck Angel (Introduction), Angel Buck (Introduction)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781942084686
• ISBN: 978-1-942084-68-6
• Dimensions: 205 mm x 260 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies, Photographs: collections, United States of America, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies