Claude Cahun's Self Portraits

Perhaps Claude Cahun’s (nee Lucie Schwob) most famous work is an extensive series of photographed self-portraits from the 1920s as various identities, morphing from androgyne to Pierrot to angel with wings to bodybuilder. They are still astonishing. In some, Cahun looks like a marine; in others, a strange doll; in still others, a two-headed being, with both heads bald. It isn’t hard to understand why David Bowie curated an exhibit of Cahun’s work in 2007, Cahun being one who fell to earth long before Ziggy Stardust was even imagined. 

From “Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel” by Stacey D’Erasmo for the New York Times 

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