Gisèle Freund Portraits

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Corresponding Klew: K-10 "The Eye of the Camera"

↓ Gisèle Freund : Our first thought in front of a good painted portrait is to ask the painter's name. But in photography it is the model that counts, and the role of a good photographer is to be the sensitive instrument by means of which a personality is revealed. 

↓ Principle of the camera obscura, 1671

Freund: I had wanted to be a sociologist because the extreme diversity of social problems fascinated me. I became a photographer out of necessity, but I have never regretted it, for I soon understood that my most vital concerns were directed toward the individual, with his sorrows and hopes and anguishes.

Freund: By thus discreetly studying the faces that chance had set before me, I began to grasp the importance of detail, the symbolic essence of the individual: an imperceptible quiver at the corner of a contorted mouth, a wrinkle on the forehead, a furtive wink, a heavy eyelid. Sometimes just the expression in a man's eyes tells us more than his whole body.

↓ The back of the photo

Portrait Selects:

 Bertolt Brecht, Colette, Ivan Illich, Jean-Paul Sartre, Virginia Woolf, Tristan Tzara, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Marguerite Yourcenar, Henri Michaux, Victoria Ocampo, Florence Henri, André Breton, Marguerite Duras, André Malraux, Henry Miller, Henri Matisse, James Joyce, Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Valéry, Richard Wright, Paul Celan, Jean Cocteau, Walter Benjamin, Diego Rivera, George Bernard Shaw, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Marie Bonaparte, Aldous Huxley, Susana Soca, Alberto Giacometti, Roger Callois, Man Ray, W. H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Beach, Pierre Reverdy, Adrienne Monnier, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Frida Kahlo, Alfonso Reyes, José Ortega y Gasset, and H. G. Wells 

Freund: The irony of our image civilization is that it consists in concealing reality from us by superimposing itself on reality.

↓ "Au Pays Des Visages" (In the Land of Faces)

Freund: When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

Portrait Index ↓

↓ Frankfurt School ID

Freund: The importance of photography does not rest primarily in its potential as an art form, but rather in its ability to shape our ideas, to influence our behavior, and to define our society.