December 19: Gisele Freund The first woman to work for Magnum, - TopicsExpress



          

December 19: Gisele Freund The first woman to work for Magnum, the cooperative photography agency founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Capa, and others, Gisele Freund was born near Berlin on this date in 1908. An accomplished photojournalist, she became best known for her portraits of such writers and artists as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Simone De Beauvoir, Man Ray, Jean Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, André Malraux, and Frida Kahlo — some of whom she captured with her camera in bohemian France during the 1930s after fleeing from Nazi Germany in 1933. . . . jewishcurrents.org/december-19-gisele-freund-13430
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 01:44:06 +0000

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