Claude Cahun
(1894-1954)

woman, surrealist, and photographer

Died aged c. 60

Claude Cahun (French pronunciation: ​[klod ka.œ̃], born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae. 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." During World War II, Cahun was also active as a resistance worker and propagandist.

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Claude Cahun 1894 - 1954 French surrealist photographer (born Lucy Schwob). Lived here from 1937 and created some of the most startingly original photographs of the twentieth century.

La Route des Camps, St Brelade, Jersey where they lived (1937)