Three Days With Joyce
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the summer of 1938, a young photographer was given unprecedented access to one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic literary giants — and Three Days with Joyce is the remarkable record of that encounter. Gisèle Freund, already a rising star in photographic circles, spent three extraordinary days with James Joyce in Paris, capturing him in unguarded, intimate moments that no other photographer had achieved. The result is a collection of stunning black-and-white portraits that strip away the mythology surrounding the author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, revealing a man of warmth, humour, and quiet intensity. Prefaced by the celebrated Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann, this volume situates Freund's photographs within the broader context of Joyce's final Paris years and the literary world he inhabited. Freund's accompanying text chronicles her recollections of those three days with a journalist's precision and an artist's sensitivity, offering a portrait of Joyce that is at once personal and historically significant. For lovers of literature, photography, and modernism, this is an irreplaceable document — a window into a world on the eve of its disappearance.
Author: Gisèle Freund
Format: Paperback
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the summer of 1938, a young photographer was given unprecedented access to one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic literary giants — and Three Days with Joyce is the remarkable record of that encounter. Gisèle Freund, already a rising star in photographic circles, spent three extraordinary days with James Joyce in Paris, capturing him in unguarded, intimate moments that no other photographer had achieved. The result is a collection of stunning black-and-white portraits that strip away the mythology surrounding the author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, revealing a man of warmth, humour, and quiet intensity. Prefaced by the celebrated Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann, this volume situates Freund's photographs within the broader context of Joyce's final Paris years and the literary world he inhabited. Freund's accompanying text chronicles her recollections of those three days with a journalist's precision and an artist's sensitivity, offering a portrait of Joyce that is at once personal and historically significant. For lovers of literature, photography, and modernism, this is an irreplaceable document — a window into a world on the eve of its disappearance.