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Gisele Freund

(1908–2000) Photographer

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Gisele Freund was a photographer.

Quick Facts About Gisele Freund

Born: December 19, 1908
Died: March 31, 2000
Profession: Photographer

About Gisele Freund

[Wikidata] French photographer (1908–2000)... | [Wikipedia] 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

Quotes by Gisele Freund

The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact…

Behavior

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Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental…

Affirmation

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Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or…

Books

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For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.

Education

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...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine,…

Action

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Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has…

Aim

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When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

Human beings

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