The face of a little girl, a bikini. A three-day beard and checkered boxers. For his entire life, Angela Grippi struggled with his womanhood. It was a deep-seated malaise that eventually led him to become a man, Simone. Alessia Bernardini’s artist’s book, Becoming Simone, an intimate, visual journal that documents this metamorphosis, is marvelous. The genuine and deeply moving story of a sexual revolution, bound together by a thin yellow thread, fans out like an accordion, combining childhood photographs, family memories, fragments of adulthood and, finally, transformation. “I did, I wanted to do, and I will do,” reads the preface.
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