Unwanted Persons? 1,344 Reasons to Adore Famed Photographer Gisele Freund.

It's been my first decently free morning from rushing around or busy getting things accomplished in as many days, so I took to catching up on reading (and blogging!) and gulping coffee and of course, what's going on in the world.Since the Thursday edition of the NY Times, I've been addicted to checking out everything there is to know about Gisele Freund, a famous Jewish photographer from Berlin, who was made famous by the US government in 1950 when she published unflattering portraits of Eva Peron in Life Magazine, ruffling feathers between the Argentinian dictator and the US, which then declared her an "unwanted person".But the NY Times did an excellent piece on her in last Thursday's Arts Section, "A Berliner's Portraits of People and Her Familiar, and Foreign Home", which is essentially a nice, neat, concise package of details on her life, her life's work, and a new exhibit featuring her famed photographs in Berlin. I highly suggest anyone interested in photography, art, or heck, just people, check out this article.And there's a nice slideshow (thank you mutli-media web) of her portraits, which the NY Times has nicely captioned. My favorites include her self-portrait, and her portrait of Simone de Beauvoir, 1952. What's more, she traveled in many a famed writer's circles, known for the last color portaits of famous scribes like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Drools.File Under: Good lookin', Good readin'. No?