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Claude Cahun, 1927 (ca), Self-Portrait (I Am in Training, Don't Kiss Me), Gelatin silver print, Christie's - New York, LL/23713
Claude Cahun

Born: Lucy Schwob

Born: 1894, 25 October - France, Nantes
Died: 1954, 8 December - UK, Channel Islands, Jersey, St Hélier
Gender: Female
Active: France
 
French woman sculptor, writer and photographer. She changed her name from Lucy Schwob in around 1917 and took a male name that confused photo-historians over her gender for many years. Her lesbian relationship with her lifelong companion Marcel Moore (born: Suzanne Malherbe) perhaps initiated her fascination with self portraits in which she took on alternate personalities. From 1937 onwards they lived in Jersey and stayed there when the Channel Islands were occupied by the Nazis. A considerable amount of her work was destroyed by the Gestapo and she was imprisoned in 1944 but later returned to Jersey.

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Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) & Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe), 1921-1922, Untitled, Gelatin silver print, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, LL/118432
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Claude Cahun, 1927 (ca), Self portrait [Autoportrait], Gelatin silver print, Sotheby's - Paris, LL/44411
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Claude Cahun, 1927 (ca), Self-Portrait (I Am in Training, Don't Kiss Me), Gelatin silver print, Christie's - New York, LL/23713
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Claude Cahun, 1927 (ca), Untitled (Self-portrait), Gelatin silver print, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, LL/57917
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Claude Cahun, 1928, Self Portrait, Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/90651
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Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe), 1929, Untitled [Claude Cahun in Le Mystère d'Adam (The Mystery of Adam)], Gelatin silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/90653
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Claude Cahun, 1929, Que me veux tu?, Gelatin silver print, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, LL/54310
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Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe), 1929 (ca), Untitled, Gelatin silver print, SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LL/90652
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Claude Cahun, 1939 (ca), Self portrait, Photograph, photomontage, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/90637
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Claude Cahun (French pronunciation: [klod ka.Å̃], born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 - 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae. In her writing, she consistently referred to herself as elle (she), and this article follows her practice; but she also said that her actual gender was fluid. For example, in Disavowals, Cahun writes: "Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me." Cahun is most well known for her androgynous appearance, which challenged the strict gender roles of her time. During World War II, Cahun was also active as a resistance worker and propagandist, founding the leftist group Contre Attaque, a union of communist writers, artists and workers, alongside André Breton and Marcel Moore.
 

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