Claude Cahun went far ahead of her time, and her photo artworks and self-exploring portraits brought her recognition only in nowdays, almost 100 years later. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. Extremely talented she went far beyound the social boundaries in her photo experiments.
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Few people know about Claude Cahun’s role as a Resistance propagandist on the occupied Island of Jersey during WWII. Along with her lover/lifelong collaborator, Marcel Moore, she spread notes (signed “The Soldier Without a Name”) urging German soldiers to mutiny. They continued this activity until their arrest after the invasion of Normandy. They spent time on death row in a German military prison on Jersey., War on the Margins, about the German occupation of the Channel Islands, deals with this important part of their lives.
Very interesting comment. Thank you Libby