Claude Cahun

[jtk]

https://www.famousphotographers.net/claude-cahun

 

[R.Gould]

The biggest collection of Claude Cahun's work is held here in Jersey, rhe Jersey museum andd art gallery has a rolling permanent exhibition of her work, she lived here for very many years and during tghe Occupation she was arrested by the Germans and sentenced to prison off island for distributing newsletters that she got from aan illegal radio, but she was never sent away because of D day, all of her original prints are very small, around 5by4, and they are sent all over the world to museum's for gisplay, and the print above is in the Jersey collection, over theyears I must have seen pretty much all of her work

 

[jtk]

The biggest collection of Claude Cahun's work is held here in Jersey, rhe Jersey museum andd art gallery has a rolling permanent exhibition of her work, she lived here for very many years and during tghe Occupation she was arrested by the Germans and sentenced to prison off island for distributing newsletters that she got from aan illegal radio, but she was never sent away because of D day, all of her original prints are very small, around 5by4, and they are sent all over the world to museum's for gisplay, and the print above is in the Jersey collection, over theyears I must have seen pretty much all of her work

Interesting comments !

 

[R.Gould]

She lived in St Brelades Bay, with her partner, Marcel Moore, who was often featured in her photographs,, they and my family were great friends and I visited her at her home more than once before she passed away in the fifties, sadly, but her home is still in the bay and if you were in our small island I could show you her housew, but as a surrealist photographer she was one of the very best

 

[jtk]

She lived in St Brelades Bay, with her partner, Marcel Moore, who was often featured in her photographs,, they and my family were great friends and I visited her at her home more than once before she passed away in the fifties, sadly, but her home is still in the bay and if you were in our small island I could show you her housew, but as a surrealist photographer she was one of the very best[/QUOT\

Thanks!

There seems a huge difference between snaps of homes and surrealism, but perhaps there's an opportunity in that idea>

 

[awty]

Never heard of her before, very interesting pictures, must look into her work more.

 

[R.Gould]

I don't quite understand where you get snaps of houses from, but if you look at any of her work including the ones in your article then you would see what I mean by surrealist, and she only ever did tiny print's around 6 by 4, there is plenty about Claude's work on the Jersey Heritage site or the Jersey Island wilki, as far as I know Jersey Heritage holds her entire collection including negatives. She was possibly best known over here, and she was born in France

 

[jtk]

I don't quite understand where you get snaps of houses from, but if you look at any of her work including the ones in your article then you would see what I mean by surrealist, and she only ever did tiny print's around 6 by 4, there is plenty about Claude's work on the Jersey Heritage site or the Jersey Island wilki, as far as I know Jersey Heritage holds her entire collection including negatives. She was possibly best known over here, and she was born in France

Sorry, I hoped to suggest that photos of a surrealists home might contribute to understanding of surrealism. If you've photographed the place please post on Photo.net ... Might add to appreciation of Claude Cahun.

 

[R.Gould]

Sorry but the only photographs I ever took of their home were taken on a box brownie, on a visit in the fifties, when I was a kid, before Claude passed,and without getting into the garden it is very difficult to take a photo of, and the people now living there have a very big guard dog, but if you could see a lot of her work you would probably get it, as I said she would not have been well known in the USA, but in France, and Jersey, where, having checked with the Jersey Heritage Website, holds her entire body of work, loaning,it out worldwide,If it helps, their home was on the coast i St Brelades bay, with a large garden, and is Granite built, and pretty much all of her work was studio based, and on LF, 6/4 I think, and contact printed, and involved her partner, Marcel Moore who waas both her partner and her ''muse'', and was also the reason that they settled in Jersey, as in the 1920's two women were, shall we say, frowned upon, to put things politely, and as I said, she suffered badlyvery sadly during the occupation during the last war, her Resistance activities resulting in her being given a death sentence towards the end of the war, which was never carried out, due to the Liberation, but Claude never recovered from the whole thing and died in the fifties,, very sadly, and she is buried in St Brelades Churchyard, which is very near her home,

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[Arthurwg]

The biggest collection of Claude Cahun's work is held here in Jersey, rhe Jersey museum andd art gallery has a rolling permanent exhibition of her work, she lived here for very many years and during tghe Occupation she was arrested by the Germans and sentenced to prison off island for distributing newsletters that she got from aan illegal radio, but she was never sent away because of D day, all of her original prints are very small, around 5by4, and they are sent all over the world to museum's for gisplay, and the print above is in the Jersey collection, over theyears I must have seen pretty much all of her work

Didn't realize that Jersey was occupied by the Germans.

 

[R.Gould]

Yes we were occupied in 1940, after France fell,, and stayed occupied until the end of the war, 9th May 1945 when the British force 135 landed , this was to be the biggest ever celebration of our Liberation, the 75th, the last big celebration with people still around during the occupation, many in their 90's, but sadly Covid 19 stopped it all, some was done on line, but a weeks celebration cannot be put on line, and we were still in total lockdown