1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1894–1954 · FRANCE
Claude Cahun
Surreal, gender-fluid self-portraits and photomontages.
- Born
- 1894
- Died
- 1954
- Country
- France
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1930Aveux non avenus
- 1925Heroines
WHY THEY MATTER
Her self-portraits have been the subject of exhibitions including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1994); she took part in the London International Surrealist Exhibition.
THE LIFE
Cahun was a French surrealist photographer and writer, born Lucy Schwob, who adopted the name Claude Cahun in 1914. From 1912 she made self-portraits in many guises that defied the strict gender roles of the time. Her experimental autobiography Aveux non avenus appeared in 1930. On occupied Jersey she and her partner Marcel Moore ran a resistance campaign against the Nazis and were sentenced to death, but survived.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia