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Gisèle Freund

1908 - 2000

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Gisèle Freund (born Gisela Freund; 19 December 1908 – 31 March 2000) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gisèle Freund is the 48th most popular photographer (up from 73rd in 2019), the 2,629th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,685th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Gisèle Freund ranks 48 out of 148. Before her are Lewis Hine, Andreas Gursky, Jan Saudek, Philippe Halsman, Daidō Moriyama, and Inge Morath. After her are Edward Weston, Claude Cahun, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, and Gustav Klutsis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Gisèle Freund ranks 127. Before her are Ed Gordon, Lionel Hampton, Lee Krasner, Carlos Peucelle, Anna Sten, and Karl Hein. After her are Michael, Prince of Montenegro, Ivan Yefremov, Yevgeny Vuchetich, Bo Yibo, Krystyna Skarbek, and Jack Williamson. Among people deceased in 2000, Gisèle Freund ranks 103. Before her are Son Sann, Pierre Pflimlin, Rabah Bitat, William Porter, Jean Peters, and John Ljunggren. After her are John O'Connor, Christian Marquand, Terence McKenna, Leonidas Pyrgos, Andy Hug, and Kemal Sunal.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gisèle Freund ranks 2,630 out of 7,253. Before her are Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort (1517), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Holger Osieck (1948), Christoph Daum (1953), Berthold, Margrave of Baden (1906), and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802). After her are Poppo von Osterna (1200), Roger Schmidt (1967), John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (1529), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Rolf Hochhuth (1931), and Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Gisèle Freund ranks 9. Before her are Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), Gunter Sachs (1932), August Sander (1876), Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), and Andreas Gursky (1955). After her are Grete Stern (1904), Lothar Wolleh (1930), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Erich Salomon (1886), Heinrich Zille (1858), and Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897).

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