Gisèle Freund

vintage photograph of a woman standing in the doorway of a bookstore

Activism in Exile

Gisèle Freund’s portraits, shown at the Maison des amis des livres in 1939, of several avant-garde writers and artists, are a collective portrait of a community, rather than a series of individuals. This group of intellectuals, however, would be scattered by the invasion of Paris by the Nazis one year later.