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New York: Photography
ARTINFO, NY - Dec 1, 2008
The sale produced only one record price—for a work by Claude Cahun, the French photographer whose self-oriented oeuvre has been compared to that of Cindy ...

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Words Worth a Thousand Paintings
New York Times, United States - Nov 27, 2008
... part theoretical tract, part queer manifesto, Disavowals: or Cancelled Confessions by the French photographer and performance artist Claude Cahun, ...

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Claude Cahun books

War on the Margins: A Novel

by: Libby Cone
If you liked The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (I didn't particularly care for it), you might like War on the Margins, which also tells the story of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. Unlike Guernsey, War on the Margins is not the least bit frivolous or formulaic.

War on the Margins threads together the fictionalized stories of several Channel Island residents suffering under the German occupation. Historical documents and letters are mixed liberally into the narrative, giving the book a serious, realistic tone.

Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were an extraordinary couple who worked and lived together for more than 40 years. Cahun and Moore were the pseudonyms for Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who met in their teens and embarked on their unique relationship. They travelled from provincial Nantes to the hot-house atmosphere of Paris and finally to Jersey, where they found the space and freedom to develop their ideas but where they were to suffer imprisonment during the Nazi occupation for their Resistance activities.

Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman

Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman were born in different countries, in different generations—Cahun in France in 1894, Deren in Russia in 1917, and Sherman in the United States in 1954. Yet they share a deeply theatrical obsession that shatters any notion of a unified self. All three try out identities from different social classes and geographic environments, extend their temporal range into the past and future, and transform themselves into heroes and villains, mythological creatures, and sex goddesses.

Claude Cahun: A Sensual Politics of Photography

by: Gen Doy

The first full-length title in English on the celebrated photographer Claude Cahun whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s.

This lively and original book looks at Cahun and her oeuvre in the contexts of the turbulent times in which she lived. Surveying standard postmodernist approaches to Cahun, born Lucy Schwob, Doy goes further, positioning Cahun's photographs as part of her life as a woman, lesbian and political activist in the early twentieth century. Doy considers Cahun's relationships with Symbolism and then Surrealism and her approach to dress and masquerade, assessing the images in the context of the situation of women at the time and within the prevailing fashion and beauty culture.