One of the twentieth century's great photographer-intellectuals, Freund moved between photojournalism, portraiture and scholarly writing with equal authority. This volume, assembled by Freund shortly before her death, spans five decades. From coverage of the last pre-Nazi May Day rally in Frankfurt in 1932 to intimate early colour portraits of the Paris intellectual circle: Benjamin, Joyce, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Duchamp, and later in South America, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Pablo Neruda. The writers, thinkers, and artists who shaped the cultural imagination of the twentieth century, photographed by someone who knew them.