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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gisèle Freund has received more than 81,470 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gisèle Freund is the 73rd most popular photographer (down from 48th in 2019), the 3,685th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,705th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Photographer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

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  • 2.85

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Gisèle Freund ranks 73 out of 148. Before her are Helen Levitt, David Bailey, Karimeh Abbud, Berry Berenson, Gertrude Käsebier, and Cornell Capa. After her are Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Guy Bourdin, Karl Blossfeldt, Paolo Monti, Werner Bischof, and Weegee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Gisèle Freund ranks 196. Before her are Elliott Carter, Krystyna Skarbek, Erik Lundqvist, Sucheta Kriplani, Jacques Herbrand, and Artem Alikhanian. After her are Don Bradman, Gualberto Villarroel, Ed Heinemann, Gideon Ståhlberg, Joseph Keilberth, and Paolo Monti. Among people deceased in 2000, Gisèle Freund ranks 153. Before her are Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Frédéric Dard, George Segal, John Ljunggren, and Mohammad Ali Fardin. After her are Stephanos Christopoulos, Kenneth Nichols, Putra of Perlis, Joey Dunlop, Henry Eriksson, and Ernst Jandl.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gisèle Freund ranks 3,685 out of 7,253. Before her are Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1428), Johann von Werth (1591), Günter Eich (1907), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (1994), and Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller (1897). After her are Thorsten Fink (1967), Herbert Zimmermann (1954), Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden (1347), Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (1498), Heinrich Albert (1604), and Konrad Wolf (1925).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Gisèle Freund ranks 10. Before her are Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), August Sander (1876), Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Andreas Gursky (1955), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), and Erich Salomon (1886). After her are Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Lothar Wolleh (1930), Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), Grete Stern (1904), Heinrich Zille (1858), and Annemarie Heinrich (1912).

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