Claude Cahun was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. She began making photographic self-portraits as early as 1912, when she was 18 years old, and she continued taking images of herself through the 1930s.
"Si je vous ai parlé d'art, comprenez qu'il ne s'agissait que de vie — vie que j'appelle art, sans doute (sans trop de modestie), pour y donner quelque valeur".
“masculin? féminin? mais ça dépend des cas. neutre est le seul genre qui me convienne toujours. s’il existait dans notre langue on n’observerait pas ce flottement de ma pensée”