Jean-Richard Bloch was a French critic, novelist and playwright.
Jean-Richard Bloch; photograph by Jenny de Vasson (c.1915)
Jean-Richard Bloch signature
Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Portrait of Aragon, before 1982.
Portrait of Louis Aragon by Man Ray, half-tone print.