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Gisele Freund is known for her exquisite documentary photography of the 1930s. She spent most of her life in Paris; wandering the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood; specifically the legendary bookstore Shakespeare and Company. In this special space; she began snapping portraits of artists and writers; among them James Joyce; Henry Miller; Virginia Woolf; Jean-Paul Sartre; Henri Michaux; André Breton; Walter Benjamin; Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard. This edition is made of two scrapbooks; constructed by Freund that display her favorite portraits in a raw and original manner. The first showcases black-and-white portraits with her typed notes. The second is bound with a red ribbon; containing 116 spot-varnished color photographs with handwritten captions.
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