{"product_id":"9780500297490-claude-cahun-photofile","title":"Claude Cahun","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe perfect primer on the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Claude Cahun (1894–1954), 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 costumes, makeup and technical effects to tackle themes of identity and self-representation. Her love of symmetry, mirroring, repurposing and retouching was also reflected in her approach to other styles of photography, including portraiture, photomontage and still-life tableaux. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Whether working alone or in collaboration with her life partner Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Malherbe), Claude Cahun was a pioneering figure in the aesthetics of modernity who never stopped crossing boundaries of gender and genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40889284558945,"sku":"9780500297490","price":9.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27231414.jpg?v=1721593906","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780500297490-claude-cahun-photofile","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}