Today's picture is James Joyce relaxing with his grandson in Paris, 1938, photographed by Gisèle Freund, one of the only female founders of the Magnum collective. Freund escaped Nazi Germany during the 1930s, settling in Paris where she took up her doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in photography. This was originally frowned upon as photography wasn't seen as a true art form but Freund later became known as one of the greatest portrait photographers and European feminist intellectuals.
This picture is all the more relevant as I travel to Trinity College, Dublin, next Friday to give my first conference talk. If only I was feeling as nonchalant as Joyce in the picture!
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| © Gisèle Freund James Joyce with Grandson sitting on a bench, 1938 |
Nice one!
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