Freund, Gisele — Gisele Freund: Photographer

New York, Abrams, 1985. Hardcover. Butterscotch cloth over boards; blind stamp lettering. Color-illus. dj with black lettering. 223 pp. with 50 color photos and 155 in duotone. With a foreword by Christian Caujolle and introduction by Freund. Stunning photos of Frankfurt during Hitler's time; the meeting of The International Congress for the Defense of Culture; England in the distressed industrial areas of the north during the 1930s; Latin America; Paris; and portraits of writers, artists and other well-known people. Each section and person is introduced with a brief text. Contents as follows: Frankfurt -- International Congress for the Defense of Culture -- England -- Portraits. Walter Benjamin -- Adrienne Monnier -- Mesures -- Paul Valery -- Colette -- James Joyce -- George Bernard Shaw -- Virginia Woolf -- Marie Bonaparte -- The surrealists -- Andre Malraux -- Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir -- American writers -- Peggy Guggenheim -- Victoria Ocampo -- Latin America -- Paris. NF/VG; dj has some fading along front edges.