who was she:

Cahun was a French realist photographer, sculptor and writer. She attended a private school in surrey and then university in Paris. In 1912 she began making self portraits and continued throughout the 1930’s. She lived in Jersey with her partner and step sister for many years, which is why the Jersey heritage trust collection have made the effort to keep and protect her work. She unfortunately was sentenced to death in 1944 for some of her activities during the occupation, yet she managed to survive and until the 1980’s she was forgotten about. Much of her and he partners work was destroyed by by the Nazis who entered their home. Claude died due to ill health in 1954 and her partner then ender her life in 1972. Many found Claude to be a inspirational photographer and felt that her image were very powerful with meaningful messages.

I like the style of her images as I think that they portray a strong message that you don’t necessarily only have characteristic of only femininity or masculinity but you can have some of both. I also like how they are in black and white as I think it gives the images more definition and depth, as well as it defined the details. I am inspired by her to take some images like this myself as I think I could put my own twist on them to make them engaging.

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