Claude Cahun: A Very Curious Spirit
Solomon-Godeau writes of Oldoini: “The lack of any clear boundary between self and image, the collapse of distinctions between interiority and specularity, are familiar, if extreme manifestations of the cultural construction of femininity.”[5]
Cameron Russell • How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
As a schoolboy, he wrote in his diary, ‘I want only to be Cecil Beaton,’ adding later, ‘I don’t want people to know me as I really am, but as I am trying and pretending to be.’ His experiments with costume and identity allowed him, time and again, to choose just who that Cecil Beaton might be
Beaton arrived in Hollywood towards the end of 1929 to
... See moreThe agoraphobic painter Emma Absinthe, most famous for her series of oil self-portraits portraying herself as the great men of history.