Gisele Freund quotes

Gisele Freund quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.”
-- Gisele Freund

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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 set for itself... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.”
-- Gisele Freund

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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 creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.”
-- Gisele Freund

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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 in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.”
-- Gisele Freund

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“The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.”
-- Gisele Freund

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

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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, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.”
-- Gisele Freund

Source : Gisèle Freund (1980). “Photography & Society”

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