Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun, 2020, New hardcover w/dust jacket

Shaw, Jennifer L. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2020.

English, New, HC, 8vo, 10 1/8" x 7 3/4", 326 pp. 

ISBN: 9781790237282

Hardcover in black paper. New white pictorial dust jacket, now in Mylar. 326 pp. Includes 134 reproductions of French Surrealist photographer, artist, and writer Claude Cahun's photographs, photomontages, and other related images, with 121 of them in color. From inside the dust jacket: "[This book] recounts her life and analyses her complex writings and images, making them available to a wide audience...[it] includes generous reproductions of work by Cahun and other renowned photographers, as well as some of her writings, here translated into English for the first time." Beautifully produced book that showcases Cahun's varied approaches to art and writing, from challenging gender stereotypes and exploring queer identities, to resisting the Nazi regime. Reprint of the 2017 edition.