JEU DE PAUME : Claude Cahun
 
 
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JEU DE PAUME : Claude Cahun

 

Autoportrait, 1927

 
 
Photographer Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun's self portraits at Jeu de Paume, Paris

Claude Cahun (1894-1954) was born Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob, a daughter of a well-off, Jewish family of intellectuals in Nantes, France. Not necessarily a great beauty, neither as a man nor as a woman, she re-invented herself through medium such as self-portraits.

Poses, hairstyles, facial expressions – the Jea de Paume pays homage to the almost forgotten vanguard of emancipation a la Française and early political lesbian.

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