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Gisèle Freund
AuthorBooks · Second hand1908-2000
Gisèle Freund was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists. Her best-known book, Photographie et société (1974), is a expanded edition of her seminal 1936 dissertation. It was the first sociohistorical study on photography as a democratic medium of self-representation in the age of technological reproduction. With this first doctoral thesis on photography at the Sorbonne, she was one of the first women habilitated there.
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1908
Death
2000
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Gisèle Freund was one of Europe's most prominent photographers and a key figure among French feminist intellectuals.
Her doctoral thesis on 19th-century photography was met with skepticism, as it was not considered a serious academic subject at the time.
She was the only female founding member of the prestigious Magnum agency.
Throughout her career, she completed nearly 80 photographic assignments worldwide for publications like Time and Life.
She is globally renowned for her unique ability to reveal the essence of her subjects through her portraiture.