Self-Portrait ca. 1927
Claude Cahun
5 1/2" x 3 1/2" Vintage gelatin silver print on carte-postale
©1998 The Sandor Family Collection
 

Claude Cahun, whose role-playing content pre-dates Cindy Sherman, was part of the Surrealist movement. 
Cahun and the other female Surrealists of the 1930s set out to represent their own identity.