Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
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The Trans List
by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Anastasia James, and Emma Morcone
Published 30 September 2018
Featuring forty portraits by photographer and filmmaker Timothy-Greenfield Sanders, The Trans List explores the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender (an umbrella term for people whose gender identity does not conform to that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth). Transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender-fluid, and non-binary are just a few of the multitude of self-identifiers in the trans community.
Through his portraiture, Greenfield-Sanders provides a platform to a diverse group of individuals to tell their stories of their experience with identity, family, career, love, struggle, and accomplishment. Many people have a profound lack of understanding of what it means to be trans, and as a consequence trans people commonly face a wide variety of discrimination and barriers to equality. Most states do not provide protection for trans people when it comes to basic needs like housing, education, and employment. Violence committed against trans people, especially trans women of color, is disproportionally high. The Trans List calls attention to cultural progress as exemplified by the stories of its subjects, people who have overcome obstacles to achieve success in disparate walks of life.
Through his portraiture, Greenfield-Sanders provides a platform to a diverse group of individuals to tell their stories of their experience with identity, family, career, love, struggle, and accomplishment. Many people have a profound lack of understanding of what it means to be trans, and as a consequence trans people commonly face a wide variety of discrimination and barriers to equality. Most states do not provide protection for trans people when it comes to basic needs like housing, education, and employment. Violence committed against trans people, especially trans women of color, is disproportionally high. The Trans List calls attention to cultural progress as exemplified by the stories of its subjects, people who have overcome obstacles to achieve success in disparate walks of life.
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition In Celebration: A Recent Gift from the Photography Collection of Marcuse Pfeifer, held at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz, from February 9–July 14, 2019. It features an in-depth interview with Marcuse Pfeifer conducted by Wayne Lempka, and reflections by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Bill Mindlin and Wayne Lempka. Though these writings, Pfeifer's career as one of the first gallery dealers in New York City to exclusively show photographs beginning in the late 1970s is explored.