2014 Exhibits
From Paris to Victoria: a Photographic Exhibition of Giséle Freund's Paris
For the first time in Canada, British Columbians had the opportunity to view a rare collection of photographs of James Joyce in Paris taken in 1938 by the young Franco-German photographer Gisèle Freund.
According to UVic Joyce scholar Dr. J. Matthew Huculak, “James Joyce loved Paris—it was his spiritual home—but he absolutely hated being photographed. In 1938, Freund convinced Joyce to let her take a series of photographs that would become famous around the world. The result was the only colour photographs of Joyce ever taken – one which was chosen as the cover of Time Magazine in 1939.”
The exhibition was a joint project of the UVic Libraries, the Department of English, the Modernist Versions Project and the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and ran from June 16 to July 1, 2014.
More information on Giséle Freund's photograph of James Joyce in Paris: Website will be launched on June 16 exhibits.library.uvic.ca/exhibits/show/jamesjoyce