Reportages and Portraits, on the occasion of her 100th birthday
Willy-Brandt-Haus
Gisèle Freund: Selbstportrait mit Kamera, Mexiko Stadt, 1950
1950 © Dr. Marita Ruiter, Galerie Clairefontaine
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The photographer Gisèle Freund would have turned one hundred this year, on 12/19/2008.
She figures most prominently among the photographers of our time and is famous for the picture reportages, which she produced during the 1930s for the magazines Life and Time in Europe and later in South America; for her portraiture work in which she, arguably, collected some of the most significant writers, artists, and philosopher of her time; and, finally, for her sound literary contributions to the history and theory of photography.
On view in the exhibit at the Willy-Brandt-Haus are one hundred samples of her portraiture work, impressive in their extraordinary familiarity: Walter Benjamin, James Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and many more, most of them taken in color, and, in many cases, the only existing color portrait of her subjects; and in addition pictures from the 1935 First International Writers Congress in Defense of Culture that was held in Paris, where Gisèle Freund participated as a student. The artist has written an account of her memories about all these photographs, thus creating a unique photo-journal of a world traveller through art and literature.
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Artist(s)
Gisèle Freund
Duration of the exhibition
29.10.2008 - 18.01.2009
Vernissage
28.10.2008, 19.30 h
Opening times
Di-So 12-18 h
Location
Willy-Brandt-Haus
Stresemannstraße 28
10963 Berlin
T 0049 30 25993787
Public transport connections
U Hallesches Tor;
Bus M41
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