Marché d’Otavalo, Equateur, around 1944 Gisèle Freund ©RMN – Grand Palais/ Gisèle Freund/IMEC - Press office – Maison de l’Amérique latine
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Gisèle Freund - This so distant South - Photographs of Latin America
21/10/2022 - 07/01/2023
Maison de l'Amérique Latine
217, bd. Saint Germain
75007 Paris
www.mal217.org
The exhibition presents 72 posthumous photographic prints by Gisèle Freund, some previously unseen, including portraits, landscapes, village views and markets, as well as scenes of daily life, shot, essentially, between 1941 and 1954.
These reveal the importance of Latin America in the trajectory of the renowned photographer whose iconic portraits immortalized writers of the 20th century.
They reveal her consistent interest in, not only portraits of people "I have never ceased to try to understand what lies behind a face", but, also "in human beings and that which surrounds them", in their environment and their condition.
Gisèle Freund first traveled to Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil at the beginning of 1941 and until the early fifties, and it is there that she lived her most powerful human and esthetic experiences. Argentina and Mexico had a particularly profound effect on her life and on her work.
The images on exhibit allow the public to fully appreciate the three facets of Gisèle Freund: the photographer, the sociologist and the journalist.
Exhibition made possible with the support of IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l'Edition Contemporaine)
21/10/2022 - 07/01/2023
Maison de l'Amérique Latine
217, bd. Saint Germain
75007 Paris
www.mal217.org
The exhibition presents 72 posthumous photographic prints by Gisèle Freund, some previously unseen, including portraits, landscapes, village views and markets, as well as scenes of daily life, shot, essentially, between 1941 and 1954.
These reveal the importance of Latin America in the trajectory of the renowned photographer whose iconic portraits immortalized writers of the 20th century.
They reveal her consistent interest in, not only portraits of people "I have never ceased to try to understand what lies behind a face", but, also "in human beings and that which surrounds them", in their environment and their condition.
Gisèle Freund first traveled to Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil at the beginning of 1941 and until the early fifties, and it is there that she lived her most powerful human and esthetic experiences. Argentina and Mexico had a particularly profound effect on her life and on her work.
The images on exhibit allow the public to fully appreciate the three facets of Gisèle Freund: the photographer, the sociologist and the journalist.
Exhibition made possible with the support of IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l'Edition Contemporaine)