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PHOTOGRAPHER

Gisèle Freund

1908 - 2000

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Gisèle Freund (born Gisela Freund; 19 December 1908 in Schöneberg (Berlin) – 31 March 2000 in Paris) 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 77,153 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gisèle Freund is the 48th most popular photographer (up from 63rd in 2019), the 2,708th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,047th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Gisèle Freund ranks 48 out of 105Before her are Josef Sudek, Carl Van Vechten, Astrid Kirchherr, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Oliviero Toscani, and Marc Riboud. After her are Cecil Beaton, Karl Blossfeldt, Inge Morath, Sophie Calle, Ansel Adams, and Lennart Nilsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Gisèle Freund ranks 137Before her are Carlos Peucelle, Giacomo Manzù, Christa Schroeder, Juan López Fontana, Yevgeny Vuchetich, and William Hartnell. After her are Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, Petro Shelest, Bjarni Benediktsson, Karel Ančerl, Son Ngoc Thanh, and Anna Sten. Among people deceased in 2000, Gisèle Freund ranks 100Before her are Ahmad Shamlou, Claire Trevor, Ursula Kuczynski, José Águas, FM-2030, and Yevgeny Khrunov. After her are Bernhard Wicki, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Bruno Zevi, Edward Gorey, and Nikolaos Andriakopoulos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gisèle Freund ranks 2,708 out of 6,142Before her are Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1891), Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Joachim Streich (1951), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), and John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1627). After her are Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (960), Carl, Duke of Württemberg (1936), Klaus Allofs (1956), Johann Christian Reil (1759), Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859), and Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1468).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Gisèle Freund ranks 8Before her are Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), Gunter Sachs (1932), August Sander (1876), Guillermo Kahlo (1871), and Astrid Kirchherr (1938). After her are Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Erich Salomon (1886), Andreas Gursky (1955), Grete Stern (1904), Heinrich Zille (1858), and Lothar Wolleh (1930).