Claude Cahun (also known as Lucy Schwob) was born in Nantes, France, to a middle-class Jewish family in 1894. Lucy Schwob later became Claude Cahun to be gender neutral as an artist and a writer. Claude Cahun was a Surrealist photographer whose work explored gender identity and the subconscious mind, The artist’s self-portrait from 1928 epitomizes her attitude and style, as she stares defiantly at the camera in an outfit that looks neither conventionally masculine nor feminine.