{"product_id":"22874-nabokov-vladimir-freund-gisele-vladimir-nabokov-montreux-1967-original-photograph-signed-by-the-subject-and-photographer","title":"Nabokov, Vladimir. (1899-1977) [Freund, Gisèle. (1908-2000)] \"Vladimir Nabokov. Montreux, 1967\" - ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY THE SUBJECT AND PHOTOGRAPHER","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eVintage silver print photograph on Agfa paper, on original photographer's mount signed \"Vladimir Nabokov \/ 26.II.67 \/ Montreux\" by the subject and \"Gisèle Freund \/ 1967\" by the photographer. Stamped \"Copyright by - Gisèle Freund\" and \"Please credit - Gisèle Freund\" on verso of print. 11.75 x 9.25 inches \u003cspan style=\"background-color: white;\"\u003e(29.5 x 23 cm). On mat\u003c\/span\u003e 16.75 x 12.75 inches (43 x 33 cm)Signed photographs of the writer are of notorious rarity. In over 40 years of auction records, we have traced but one other, a small format photograph (Christie's, The M. Wesley Marans Collection of Signed \u003cspan class=\"match\" style=\"\"\u003ePhotograph\u003c\/span\u003es. Writers. 17 April, 1996). The present large example, signed additionally by the photographer and from her personal collection, is a particularly notable example. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 243, 21);\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eGisèle Freund, widely celebrated as one of the major photographers of the 20th century, was also ground-breaking critic who authored the first doctoral study on the history of photography in 1936, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eLa Photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e (Photography in France in the Nineteenth-Century). Freund is perhaps most celebrated for her portraits of many of the canonical writers and artists of the twentieth century—James Joyce, André Gide, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Frida Kahlo, Walter Benjamin, and Vladimir Nabokov - to name but a handful among over three hundred personalities. Her work as a photojournalist, both in color and black and white, was published across Europe and the Americas, starting in the 1930s with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eWeekly Illustrated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eRegards\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eVu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eArts et Métiers Graphiques\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, in the 1940s, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eEl Hogar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eSur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eLa Nación\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eExcélsior\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003ePicture Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, then, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eLook, Du\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eSie und Er\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eNovedades\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003ePoints de Vue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eMarco Polo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eWeekend Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, in the 1950s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 243, 21);\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eVladimir Nabokov, a\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003elso known by the \u003c\/span\u003epen name\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eVladimir Sirin, \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ewas an \u003c\/span\u003eexpatriate\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRussian\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003eRussian-American\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enovelist\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, poet, translator, and \u003c\/span\u003eentomologist\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e. Born in \u003c\/span\u003eImperial Russia\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in \u003c\/span\u003eBerlin\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, but achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945 and lived mostly on the \u003c\/span\u003eEast Coast\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e before returning to Europe in 1961, where he settled in \u003c\/span\u003eMontreux\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, Switzerland. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eNabokov's 1955 novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e ranked fourth on \u003c\/span\u003eModern Library\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e's list of the \u003c\/span\u003e100 best 20th-century novels\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e in 2007 and is considered one of the greatest 20th-century works of literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093827702943,"sku":"22874","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Nabokov_2C_Vladimir_28Freund_2C_Gisele_29_Vladimir_Nabokov._Montreux_2C_1967_SP_22874a.jpg?v=1722190642","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/22874-nabokov-vladimir-freund-gisele-vladimir-nabokov-montreux-1967-original-photograph-signed-by-the-subject-and-photographer","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}