Who is Claude Cahun?

Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the artist name 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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About her work

Cahun’s work is both political and personal and also focuses on creating work linked to the surrealist movement. Although she made sculpture, embedded herself within activism and wrote extensively, Cahun is mostly synonymous for her contributions to surrealist photography, particularly her striking self-portraits, in which she questioned societal expectations of gender years ahead of her time