1908 Gisele Freund born

1932 Gisele Freund photographs the last demonstrations and public meetings held by the Left before the Nazis seize power.

1933 , A German official advises Freund to leave the country quickly, since the Gestapo would arrest her whole group the very next day

1935 Freund produces what critics regard as her finest piece of photojournalism, a report on unemployment in the North of England.

1936 Freund receives her PhD; Her sociology thesis was on the effects of photography on the art of the portrait

1939 Freund's portraits of literary masters of the day exhibited wall-sized at the Monnier bookshop at 7, Rue de l'Odeon, which was frequented by James Joyce and other intellectuals.

1939 Freund flees to Argentina, with the assistance of Andre Malraux and rich Argentinean Victoria Ocampo, editor of the South American literary magazine Sur.

1940s Freund photographs the Tierra del Fuego and Eva Peron, then at the height of her fame.

1945 Freund moves to Mexico

1952 Freund returns to Paris, where she was invited to join Magnum by Robert Capa.

1954 Capa dismisses Freund from Magnum because she was on the McCarthy blacklist and had been refused entry into the country.

1968 Freund given a retrospective in the Paris Musee d'Art Moderne

1974 Freund publishes Photography and Society

1981 Freund takes the official presidential photograph of Francois Mitterrand

1980s Freund gives up photography to devote herself to reading.

1983 Freund publishes Three Days with Joyce

2000 Freund dies at the age of 91.