Gisele Freund (1912)

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  Gisèle Freund-"GIACOMETTI, PARIS"

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  Gisèle FREUND (1908-2000) - Frida Kahlo et ses

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  Gisèle Freund (German, 1908-2,000) JAMES JOYCE

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Gisele Freund Biography

(b berlin, 19 dec 1912). french photographer and writer of german birth. she studied sociology and art history before becoming an international freelance photojournalist in 1935. she took documentary photographs covering social issues and portraits of writers, artists and intellectuals, for example simone de beauvoir (see freund, 1985, pp. 140–41). her work was published by life , weekly illustrated , picture post , paris-match and many other magazines, and exhibited internationally. during world war ii she fled to southern france, and to argentina and chile, where she worked with the louis jouvet theatre company. she spent a brief period in mexico (1950–52) but was based in france from 1946. a pioneer of 35 mm photo-reportage, in both black and white and colour, she revealed in her work a preoccupation with the role of photography in society, culminating in her pioneering study, photographie et société (1977).

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