by Gisèle Freund · Seuil · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020006606
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«Photographie et société» is Gisèle Freund's essay on photography and society, published by Seuil in paperback (224 pages, in French).
Gisèle Freund's essay starts from the ubiquity of photography in everyday life to question its supposed documentary neutrality. Although the medium can generate knowledge and have artistic value, it also functions as a communication vehicle exposed to all kinds of manipulations; its development cannot be explained by technique alone, but by a social and political reading.
The book is number 15 in the Points Histoire collection and was originally published in 1974.
Aimed at readers interested in photography, sociology and cultural history, and in the social uses of the image.
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.
