Sarah Howgate is senior curator of contemporary portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She is the coauthor of Lucian Freund Portraits, 21st-Century Portraits and The Portrait Now. Dawn Ades is professor emerita of art history at the University of Essex and the author of Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980, among many other books.

"The presentation of these related bodies of work—and the hints and clues they offer about divergent ways of approaching the question of identity—provides a unique platform for a thoughtful and eloquent contemporary artist to delve deeply into what she has learned from the study of an esteemed predecessor."—Shelley Rice, editor of Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman

• Director's foreword 6 Curious spirits, Sarah Howgate 8 Transformation 21 My Polaroid years 41 Surrealism 53 Transcending time 77 Masquerade 97 Performance 113 Later life and memento mori, Sarah Howgate 133 Gillian Wearing in conversation with Sarah Howgate 160 Claude Cahun's 'self-portraits,' Dawn Ades 174 Claude Cahun: chronology, Tanya Bentley 188 Gillian Wearing: chronology, Tanya Bentley 194 Curator's acknowledgements 200 Further reading 201 Exhibition list and picture credits 202 Index 207

Sarah Howgate is senior curator of contemporary portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She is the coauthor of Lucian Freund Portraits, 21st-Century Portraits and The Portrait Now. Dawn Ades is professor emerita of art history at the University of Essex and the author of Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980, among many other books.

"The presentation of these related bodies of work—and the hints and clues they offer about divergent ways of approaching the question of identity—provides a unique platform for a thoughtful and eloquent contemporary artist to delve deeply into what she has learned from the study of an esteemed predecessor."—Shelley Rice, editor of Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman

• Director's foreword 6 Curious spirits, Sarah Howgate 8 Transformation 21 My Polaroid years 41 Surrealism 53 Transcending time 77 Masquerade 97 Performance 113 Later life and memento mori, Sarah Howgate 133 Gillian Wearing in conversation with Sarah Howgate 160 Claude Cahun's 'self-portraits,' Dawn Ades 174 Claude Cahun: chronology, Tanya Bentley 188 Gillian Wearing: chronology, Tanya Bentley 194 Curator's acknowledgements 200 Further reading 201 Exhibition list and picture credits 202 Index 207

Sarah Howgate is senior curator of contemporary portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She is the coauthor of Lucian Freund Portraits, 21st-Century Portraits and The Portrait Now. Dawn Ades is professor emerita of art history at the University of Essex and the author of Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980, among many other books.

"The presentation of these related bodies of work—and the hints and clues they offer about divergent ways of approaching the question of identity—provides a unique platform for a thoughtful and eloquent contemporary artist to delve deeply into what she has learned from the study of an esteemed predecessor."—Shelley Rice, editor of Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman

• Director's foreword 6 Curious spirits, Sarah Howgate 8 Transformation 21 My Polaroid years 41 Surrealism 53 Transcending time 77 Masquerade 97 Performance 113 Later life and memento mori, Sarah Howgate 133 Gillian Wearing in conversation with Sarah Howgate 160 Claude Cahun's 'self-portraits,' Dawn Ades 174 Claude Cahun: chronology, Tanya Bentley 188 Gillian Wearing: chronology, Tanya Bentley 194 Curator's acknowledgements 200 Further reading 201 Exhibition list and picture credits 202 Index 207