Susan Faludi Adds a Key Ingredient to Her 2016 Book: Photographs

In 2004, at age 76, her father opted for gender reassignment surgery

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The book In the Darkroom garnered much acclaim in 2016, but as some readers noted, there was something missing. Not so with the new paperback edition, released May 2.

Author Susan Faludi, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, explains in an essay for New York Times photography blog Lens that she felt that the bulk of the photographs she uncovered when her father passed away in 2015, 11 years after his gender reassignment surgery, were a “lie.”

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