The exhibition that accompanied this catalogue was curated by Whitney Chadwick, Katy Kline and Helaine Posner. The catalogue was edited by Whitney Chadwick. In her opening essay, "An Infinite Play of Empty Mirrors; Women, Surrealism, and Self-Realization," Chadwick writes that the rediscovery of Claude Cahun in the early 1980s is accompanied with a critical rereading of historical Surrealism. "The neatness with which Cahun's photographs have been annexed to post modern concerns with the decentered subject and with identity as contingent and mutable has obscured the complexity and contradictions of her writings and blinded many to the works' representations of conflicted identities." Katy Kline contributes an essay, "In or Out of the Picture: Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman." She analyses the differences between the two artists and how they each participated in the Surrealist belief system. Kline notes that Cahun was one of few women close to the original Surrealist group and appended her signature to their manifesto. Her book "Aveux non Avenus" is described as a compendium of reveries, aphorisms, and enigmatic intimacies on love and self-knowledge. The Sackner Archive lent Cahun's photograph,"L'Humanite Poupee," two copies of the book "Aveux non avenus" by Claude Cahun, Francois Lepelier's "Claude Cahun: Un Monographie," and the catalogue "Claude Cahun Photographe" to the exhibition at its Miami Art Museum venue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.