Bailey, Laura and Thynne, Lizzie (2005) Beyond Representation: Claude Cahun's Monstrous Mischief-Making. History of Photography, 29 (2). pp. 135-148. ISSN 0308-7298

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

This article explores how Claude Cahun's photography interrogates vision as a means of control and categorization of the 'other', particularly in relation to sexological and psychoanalytic discourses. In the sustained project of self-invention which she undertook with her lifelong lover and step sister, Marcel Moore (1892-1972), her key strategies are parody and the ironic reversal of dominant representations of gender, sexuality and race. These are examined firstly in her mimicry of the portraits of paternal 'others', and then through analysis of the strategic deployment, veiling, and pathologizing of her Jewish and 'third sex' identity in her images, her real life performances, her writing and her objects. Key words: Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob)(1894-1954), Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) (1892 - 1972),'third sex',monstrous, Havelock Ellis (1839- 1959),abject.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Thynne was the lead author of this article. The article draws on some of the images and writing by Cahun and Moore which were creatively explored in Thynne's film 'Playing a Part: the Story of Claude Cahun'(2004) but in this written examination the authors provide a broader, discursive argument about how the couple's photography interrogates vision as a means of control and categorization of the 'other', particularly in relation to sexological and psychoanalytic discourses.
Schools and Departments:	School of Media, Film and Music > Media and Film
Depositing User:	Lizzie Thynne
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 20:35
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2012 11:26
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/26832

📧 Request an update