by Gisèle Freund · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9789688872086
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In 'Photography as Social Document', Gisèle Freund explores the interdependence between artistic expressions and society, focusing on French photographic culture from the 19th century to the 1970s. The author analyzes how the techniques of photographic image transformed the vision of the world and its function in the evolution of individual and collective portrait, paying special attention to the bourgeois world of the 19th century and its relationship with the production and mechanical reproduction.
Gisèle Freund 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.
