{"product_id":"claude-cahun-photofile","title":"Claude Cahun (Photofile)","description":"\u003cp\u003eClaude 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv data-role=\"bva-reveal\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePolitically 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhether 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W.W. Norton \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555650146361,"sku":"210000002941","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/71xdiudzptl-sl1500.jpg?v=1790279655","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/claude-cahun-photofile","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}