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Paris street named in honour of artists who lived in Jersey
27 November 2018
Claude Cahun, who was born Lucy Schwob, is regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, and there has been a resurgence in her work since the mid-1990s when Jersey Heritage acquired her collection.
Society generally considered women to be women and men to be men in early-20th-century France. Cahun’s work protested gender and sexual norms, and has become increasingly relevant.
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. This month we’re adding the stories of important L.G.B.T.Q. figures.
In early-20th-century France, when society generally considered women to be women and men to be men, Lucy Schwob decided she would rather be called Claude Cahun.
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The National Portrait Gallery is bringing together the works of two artistic visionaries exploring the complexities of identity in different eras
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| Claude Cahun |
Far too complicated and singular for her own good, she was also – as Breton said – 'one of the most curious spirits of our time'
Gavin James Bower
14 February 1012
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