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From around 1922, Cahun and Moore began hosting salons and events in their home, inviting avant-garde writers and artists. Although Cahun had been interested in photography and self-portraiture from around the age 12, it was not until the 1920s that Cahun began to experiment seriously with the medium, creating some of charismatic and famous images.
- French
- October 25, 1894
- Nantes, France
- December 8, 1954
Claude Cahun (French pronunciation: [klod ka.œ̃], 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.
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May 8, 2024 · Claude Cahun (born October 25, 1894, Nantes, France—died December 8, 1954, St. Helier, Jersey) was a French writer, photographer, Surrealist, and performance artist who was largely written out of art history until the late 1980s, when her photographs were included in an exhibition of Surrealist photography in 1986.
Apr 5, 2024 · Cahun (1894–1954) was a French artist and writer, now famed for her powerful photographic works. She was born Lucy Schwob into a creative Jewish family; later, in 1917, she assumed the pseudonym Claude Cahun – a gender-neutral first name, with her grandmother’s surname. With this new identity, she distanced herself from the confines of ...
Jul 6, 2023 · Born Lucy Schwob on October 25, 1894, Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer who explored gender and sexual identity through her self-portraits. French artist Claude Cahun's surrealist exploration of gender through self-portrait photography was decades ahead of its time.
Jun 16, 2020 · Her last, name Cahun, was taken from her grandmother, Mathilda. Cahun’s mother, Mary-Antoinette Courbebaisse, suffered from severe mental illness. She was ultimately sent to a permanent psychiatric facility, making Mathilda Cahun’s primary caretaker. When Cahun was about 15 years old, she met Suzanne Malherbe (later Marcel Moore).
Oct 31, 2021 · ― Claude Cahun This week Google honored the 127th birthday of surrealist photographer Claude Cahun (pronounced: caAH) as a Google Doodle. The doodle draws on a series of self-portraits of one of the precursors of the LBGTQ+ community.
