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"Her photographic self-portraits from the 1930s made Claude CAHUN a queer icon. Few may know, however, that she was also a passionate object artist who, moreover, reflected her practice in writings. Her objects have endured in the form of photographs, but what is actually meant when we speak of objects here? Objects, photographs of the objects, or something else?
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In her book 'Claude Cahun's Poetry of the Object. On the Infecting Afterlife of Photographs,' Kat Lawinia Gorska focuses on the underestimated aspects of Claude Cahun's artistic and literary activity from a media-philosophical perspective, and in this way sheds a completely new light on the artist." (© transcript verlag, 2022)