What is identity?
identity definition dictionary
It’s a bit like your administrative identity combined with your physical characteristics, such as your date and place of birth. A photographic identity allows you to reveal yourself, to stand out among the crowd of photographers, to ensure your individuality and your irreplaceable artistic fingerprint.
i think that identity describes a person for example the way they appear, the stuff they wear. This can say a lot because it can show what there interests are, additionally identity can have a very big meaning for example like the environment a photo is taken it can be important to someone
masculinity
Masculine images typically convey power, strength, virility, athleticism, and competitiveness whereas feminine images show beauty, submissiveness, nurturance, and cooperation
i think masculine photos show how a male is compared to a women for example the male should be bigger and stronger then a women
femininity
A woman connected to her feminine essence: Chooses cooperation, kindness, and compassion over competition and dominance. Prioritizes creativity, emotional intimacy, and sensual experiences as essential to her well-being.
Claude Cahun
claude cahun is best known for her portraiture and writing, In her writing, she consistently referred to herself as elle (she), and this article follows her practice; but she also said that her actual gender was fluid. For example, in Disavowals, Cahun writes: “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.” Cahun is most well known for her androgynous appearance, which challenged the strict gender roles of her time.
Claude Cahun was born Lucy Schwob in 1894. She came from a wealthy Jewish family of intellectuals and publishers. In 1918 she adopted the surname of her great uncle Léon Cahun, an Orientalist and Novelist. Her forename, Claude, in French can be either male or female or, in Claude’s case, both.
The goal for Cahuns work is to make people recognise her and that people can be different and at the end of the day everyone is still a human, she achieved these goals by going to prison and getting the death sentence and always stood by her opinion and she never switched up and when she came out of prison she carried on what she thought was right
Cahun’s connection with Jersey began early, with childhood holidays spent in Jersey and in 1939 the start of world war 2 Cahun decided to move to jersey for her safety as she was, lesbian, jewish and an artist
Image Analysis
Technical: the technical aspect of this photo is that Claude Cahun is using a low iso so less light is absorbed by the camera and it gives it the darker affect on lighter things like her hair because her hair is blonde
Visual: In this photo Cahun is angled so her head is facing the camera and the reflection is looking the other way the mirror is kind of like a barrier with her and the reflection.
Conceptual: Cahun is the main target of the photo she is the central idea of the photo, additionally she has no reaction
Contextual: the context behind this photo is that the world war 2 just started and she was Jewish, rebellious, creative and free thinking she was everything the Germans didn’t want but she always carried on and it was kind of like motivation for her