Claude Cahun

Ever since I discovered the photography of Claude Cahun I've been absolutely fascinated with her androgynous persona and use of surrealist imagery. Born in France in 1894 as Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob she began taking photographs in 1912 at the age of 18. For the first few years of her artistic career she mainly focused on self-portraiture, during the course of which she adopted the sexually ambiguous name of Claude. Her long time partner Suzanne Malherbe also adapted to an extremely epicene way of living by taking on the pseudonym of Marcel Moore. Together they created large collaborative publications containing writing, photography, illustration, and collage forging one of the most valuable partnerships in 20th century Paris.

It is incredible how timeless the work they created remains. The utterly bizarre, yet strikingly beautiful documentation of their experiments with constructed gender roles and use of photo-manipulation casts a surreal and lasting impression on contemporary photography.

“Beneath this mask, another mask. I will never be finished lifting off all these faces” -Claude Cahun

MIX

Design by H. Carlyn and TADOT

For my 4th mix I had the pleasure of collaborating with my fabulous friend Mara. She bangs the drums for Minneapolis based band Is/Is and serves as an endless source of inspiration for me. We split the mix down the middle to create a 26 track playlist, the first 13 contributed by myself, the last 13 by Mara.

Enjoy.

TRACK LIST:

1. Chapterhouse: Pearl
2. The Seeds: Nobody Spoil My Fun
3. David Bowie: Heroes
4. Os Mutantes: A Minha Menina
5.  The Shangri-Las: Remember (Walking in the Sand)
6. Dead Meadow: Hard People, Hard Time
7. Les Monegasques: Psychose
8. Howlin' Wolf: Back Door Man
9.  13th Floor Elevators: You're Gonna Miss Me
10. Loop: Breathe Into Me
11. Psychic TV: Godstar
12. Spectrum: Indian Summer
13. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood: Sundown, Sundown
14. Ride: From Time to Time
15. Rolling Stones: Monkey Man
16. Spindrift: Red Reflection
17. Happy Mondays: Kinky Afro
18. The Stone Roses: Made of Stone
19. Brian Glaze: Day of the Dead
20. Spiritualized: Do it All Over Again
21. Relatively Clean Rivers: Easy Ride
22. The Jesus and Mary Chain: Darklands
23. The Troggs: Love is All Around
24. The Faces: Glad and Sorry
25. The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Whoever You Are
26. Tommy James and the Shondelles: I'm a Tangerine

DOWNLOAD FULL MIX HERE

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Paris Fashion Week: S/S 11 Details

McQueen

GIVENCHY

LANVIN

The Holy Mountain

Pwtite Brigitte

Recently I had the pleasure of shooting a few tests with stylist Ariella Villa who works with me at Independent Artists Agency.  It features Wallflower Model Management's Remy, whose gorgeous blond locks and amazing bone structure had us all calling her "Baby Bardot" on set. Josh Kinney from Ft. Worth's Shampoo Salon produced a fabulous up do, and Amber Miller created a beautiful, classic make up look.

In love with this amazing Ohne Titel combo net dress dress Ariella pulled.

The necklace Remy is wearing is designed by Benjamin Hubert of Tetanus Jewelry.

Obsessed with this Isabel Marant print dress.

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