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3 unusual facts about Claude Cahun


François Leperlier

François Leperlier (born 1949) is a French writer, essayist, poet, philosopher and art historian, known especially for his work on the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun.

Sharon Morris

In 2000 she completed a Ph.D. on the writer Hilda Doolittle and the artist Claude Cahun, and in 2003 received a Leverhulme research fellowship for her writings on poetics, visual theory and semiotics.

Tamy Ben-Tor

Prominent in this important lineage of artists are Claude Cahun, Eleanor Antin, Martha Wilson, and Cindy Sherman.


Léon Cahun

French photographer and writer Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob, 1894–1954) was his great-niece.


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