# Claude Cahun (Photofile)

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- Authors: [François Leperlier](https://www.bookquiver.com/francois-leperlier)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2023-06-29

## Description

Claude Cahun (1894–1954), the chosen name of the artist born Lucy Schwob, was best known in her lifetime as a writer but built up a remarkable body of photographic work that only came to prominence after her death. Politically active and involved with a wide circle of artists and intellectuals, including the Surrealists, Cahun followed her own rules in both life and art. She is best known for her strikingly staged self-portraits, in which she used costumes, makeup and technical effects to tackle themes of identity and self-representation. Her love of symmetry, mirroring, repurposing and retouching was also reflected in her approach to other styles of photography, including portraiture, photomontage and still-life tableaux. Whether working alone or in collaboration with her life partner Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Malherbe), Claude Cahun was a pioneering figure in the aesthetics of modernity who never stopped crossing boundaries of gender and genre.

## Editions

### Claude Cahun (Photofile)

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0029-749-0
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2023-06-29
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Claude Cahun](https://www.bookquiver.com/claude-cahun/fr/claude-cahun) (fr_FR)