by Gisèle Freund · Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425218811
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«La fotografía como documento social» is the essay by Gisèle Freund, published by Editorial Gustavo Gili in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
The work studies photography as an instrument of communication that can be both knowledge and a work of art, and that is subject to vicissitudes and manipulations. Freund traces its history from the precursors to the present day to show that it is not only technique, but a social, political and artistic phenomenon.
Work originally published as Photographie et Société (1974); this 2001 edition belongs to the FotoGGrafía collection and includes the translation by Josep Elias.
For readers interested in photography, communication and social sciences, as well as in the cultural history of the medium.
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.
