Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun is a French photographer known for her highly staged self-portraits. She used a multitude of costumes to protest against gender and sexual norms at the beginning of the twentieth century. She even changed her name from Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob to Claude Cahun as it is a gender-neutral name.
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| “Que me veux-tu?”, 1928 |
In this photograph, two silhouette portraits of Claude looking at each other seemingly asking what do you want from me? Notably, Cahun uses the superposition of two portraits to create this polycephalic effect of her shaved head makes it difficult to distinguish between a man or a woman demonstrating her protest for gender-neutrality.
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| Self Portrait, 1928 |
This iconic self-portrait of Cahun in which she wears a checkered coat looking away from a mirror. From one side, she masks her neck only on one side and reveals the skin of her throat in the reflection of the mirror which exposes the duality of identity of vulnerability and toughness. Futhermore, Claude inverts colours and plays with the contrast to give a more depth to the image and even protesting for equality of race.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/obituaries/claude-cahun-overlooked.html
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160629-claude-cahun-the-trans-artist-years-ahead-of-her-time
My Self-portraits
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| The slow shutter was used to get this portrait of me driving to let enough light reach the sensor and create a slightly blurred background due to the car moving, 1/3 |
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| This stop motion picture was taken while driving at night, the ISO was very high which allowed to use a fast shutter speed to make it look like I'm stopped in traffic, 1/2 |
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| In this photograph, I used a slow shutter speed to get a motion blur effect to transmit the fact I am putting my bag swimming backpack quickly in the trunk of my car as I was in a hurry to get to my training, 1/5 |
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| In this picture, a long exposure (slow shutter speed) is used to show that I am exhausted after my swim training and feel like I am falling apart show by the shadow of my head, 1.6 second |
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| In this picture, I show that I am bored by taking using a slow shutter speed to create a motion blur effect of me spinning my chair at high speed, 1/2 |
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