Gisèle Freund, L'Oeil frontière : Paris 1933-1940
RMN, Paris, 2011
This exhibition catalogue from a show at the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent contains mostly black and white images, which are very good and make the smaller colour selection from 1939 jump out. Freund had a brief flirtation with Kodakchrome. I wish it had been longer as the hues and saturation are great and give the subjects a jolt of contemporaneity, albeit with a slightly sickly pallor.
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| Myopic James Joyce |
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| Brainiac Walter Benjamin |
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| Smouldering Colette |
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| Marcel Marceau Duchamp |
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| Sideshow Jean Cocteau |
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| Puffin' André Breton |
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| Smokin' Jean-Paul Satre |
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| Chintzy Virginia Woolf |
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| Cheery Herbert Read and Anytime Peggy Guggenheim |
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| Old Possum T.S.Eliot |
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| Wild Man Thornton Wilder |
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| Ars Longa Vita Sackville-West |
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