"In photographs taken from the 1920s to 1940s, this French artist often portrays herself in male clothes and hairstyles, contemplating her own transformed image as she experiments with the fictions of gender. Cahun's pioneering art is typical of the freedom the surrealist movement gave artists to question sexual and social convention." - the gurdian , The 10 most subversive women artists in history.
Claude Cahun was born in October 25 1894 and died in December 8 1954, she was a French artist,photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. She began making photographic self-portraits as early as 1912, when she was 18 years old, and she continued taking images of herself through the 1930s. After that she went to Paris with her lover, in there she collaborated in written work, sculptures, photomontage and collages.
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