Claude Cahun (Photofile) For the workaholic drawing on themes of intergenerational

drawing on themes of intergenerational female empowerment

Covering everything from pen and ink to oils and acrylics

ranging from white to dark charcoal

My heart goes boom

This volume – with new essays by Rachel Thomas

Claude Cahun (Photofile) For the workaholic drawing on themes of intergenerationalClaude Cahun (18941954), the chosen name of the artist born Lucy Schwob, was best known in her lifetime as a writer but built up a remarkable body of photographic work that only came to prominence after her death. Politically active and involved with a wide circle of artists and intellectuals, including the Surrealists, Cahun followed her own rules in both life and art. She is best known for her strikingly staged self portraits, in which she used