Friday, January 9, 2009

Abroad - Berlin Honors the Photography of Gisèle Freund, a Prodigal Daughter - NYTimes.com

Abroad - Berlin Honors the Photography of Gisèle Freund, a Prodigal Daughter - NYTimes.com: "BERLIN — Not all culture is global yet. Outside aging lefty circles in Greenwich Village or the Berkshires, the photographer Gisèle Freund mostly causes head-scratching in the United States. Among other reasons, she published unflattering pictures of Eva Perón in Life magazine in 1950, troubling the Argentine dictator and ruffling diplomatic relations, so the State Department officially declared her an “unwanted person.”"

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