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Claude Cahun

1894 - 1954

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Claude Cahun (French pronunciation: [klod ka.œ̃], born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae. In her writing, Cahun mostly referred to herself with grammatically feminine words, but she also said that her actual gender was fluid. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Cahun is the 50th most popular photographer (down from 33rd in 2019), the 2,718th most popular biography from France (down from 2,285th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Claude Cahun ranks 50 out of 148. Before her are Jan Saudek, Philippe Halsman, Daidō Moriyama, Inge Morath, Gisèle Freund, and Edward Weston. After her are Jacques Henri Lartigue, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, Gustav Klutsis, Cecil Beaton, and André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Claude Cahun ranks 102. Before her are Pavel Rybalko, Ottavio Bottecchia, Alexander Lippisch, Ivan Isakov, Georges Guynemer, and Évariste Lévi-Provençal. After her are Friedrich Pollock, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia, Goro Yamada, Ángel Romano, and J. B. Priestley. Among people deceased in 1954, Claude Cahun ranks 62. Before her are Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Friedrich Meinecke, Ahmed Nihad, Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria, William Hoyt, and Onofre Marimón. After her are Herms Niel, Wilhelm Brückner, Clyde Cessna, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Pat McDonald, and Henri Laurens.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Cahun ranks 2,718 out of 6,770. Before her are Achille Valenciennes (1794), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), Theobald III, Count of Blois (1019), Jean-François Regnard (1655), André Thevet (1516), and Lupus of Troyes (395). After her are Guy Ligier (1930), Jean Rapp (1771), Henri Labrouste (1801), André Marty (1886), Pierre Magnol (1638), and John III, Duke of Bavaria (1374).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Claude Cahun ranks 8. Before her are Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Dora Maar (1907), Robert Doisneau (1912), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Étienne Carjat (1828), and Sophie Calle (1953). After her are Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), Patrick Demarchelier (1943), Marc Riboud (1923), and Guy Bourdin (1928).

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