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Claude Cahun: The Google doodle honors the great French photographer

The great French photographer Claude Cahun is honored by Google with its current doodle, on the occasion of the 127th anniversary of her birth.

Claude Caen was born on October 25, 1894 as Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob. She shaved her head in 1919 when she had moved to Paris and adopted this gender neutral name with which it became known, as a sign of questioning the social contract of the time.

Throughout her life she used her own image to protest the clichés surrounding the idea of ​​identity.

He was a personality who defied sexual, social and moral conventions, proposing a modernity that has been a major influence on many contemporary artists. Her sexual ambiguity consciously cultivated and challenged established norms and conventions.

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