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Claude Cahun
I.O.U. (Self-Pride)1929-1930

Not on view
Photomontage print with stacked masked faces, nude figures, disembodied eyes and ears, typeset and handwritten French and English text, in black, white, and gray tones

Claude Cahun, I.O.U. (Self-Pride), 1929-1930, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, digital image courtesy of Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Claude Cahun
France, 1894-1954
Title
I.O.U. (Self-Pride)
Place Made
France
Date Made
1929-1930
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Frame: 20 × 16 × 1 in. (50.8 × 40.64 × 2.54 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm) Primary support: 6 × 4 1/8 in. (15.24 × 10.48 cm) Image: 6 × 4 1/8 in. (15.24 × 10.48 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.27
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Irmas, Deborah. This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.
  • Martineau, Paul, and Ryan Linkoff. Queer Lens: A History of Photography. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2025.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Imagining the Modern Self: Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. September 29, 2012 - January 21, 2013

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