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Geography and History of Ames

Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Claude Cahun
 

Inka Souto Costa · 26 febrero 2018 15:44


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Claude Cahun, pseudonym of Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob, born in 1894 and deceased in 1954 (aged 60), was a French photographer and writer. It was considered a non-binary genre, a revolutionary thing at that time.
Claude escaped from the Nazis, survived death and captured him in his best photographs

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Name of the female historic character
Lee Miller
 

Daniel Mato Gómez, Sara Pazos Barreiro · 26 febrero 2018 07:44


Name of the male historic character
Man Ray

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Lee Miller was born on April 23, 1907 in Poughkeepsie.
in 1929 she moved to Paris with the intention of becoming an apprentice to Man Ray
She opened her own photo studio.
Sometimes, she was in charge of making fashionable photographs commissioned to Man Ray for that he could concentrate on his painting, so many of the photographs taken during this period and attributed to Man Ray were actually taken by Lee Miller.

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Name of the female historic character
Aurora Bernárdez
 

Andrea Suárez Vázquez · 25 febrero 2018 20:22


Name of the male historic character
Julio Cortázar

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Aurora Bernárdez was a translator in the UNESCO and galician-argentine writer who stayed in the shadow of her husband Julio Cortázar. He, as a graduate in Letters and Magisterium, worked in teaching and was a translator in several argentine cities. His wife translated some of the works that Julio signed as his. An example of the works that she translated are Bouvard e Pécuchet

Name of the female historic character
Emilie Flögue
 

Andrea Rodríguez Ramos, Teo Martínez de Lorenzo · 22 febrero 2018 18:57


Name of the male historic character
Gustav Klimt

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Gustav Klimt was an austriac painter who excel because of his erotic and ornamental paints. He met Emilie Flögue at 1890, who was his partner for the rest of his life. But Gustav frecuently cheated her and this was a discussion reason in their relation.
Emilie was a designer and also Gustav's muse. All of the clothes from the paints of her husband were designed from Emilie.
She hasn's got any recognition.

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Name of the female historic character
Alice Guy
 

Carlos Iglesias Seoane, Laura Fernández Terán · 26 febrero 2018 20:57


Name of the male historic character
Hebert Baché

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Alice Guy made movies before men, but the machismo of the time silenced its historical contribution. She made the first fiction movie in history. During his career he filmed thousands of movies, but when he married Hebert Blaché, and then they separated, his career ended, leaving her out of the story. All her works she attributed to the men who worked with her.

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