page_title: Gisèle Freund
section_title: Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Gisèle Freund / Exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: Galerie Château d'eau Toulouse. De gauche à droite&#160;: Michel Tournier, Jean Dieuzaide, Michel Delaborde, Gisèle Freund (photo Michel Dieuzaide)
context_page_description: 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, is about the uses and abuses of the photographic medium in the age of technological reproduction. In 1977, she became President of the French Association of Photographers, and in 1981, she took the official portrait of French President François Mitterrand.
  She was made Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, the highest decoration in France, in 1983. In 1991, she became the first photographer to be honored with a retrospective at the Musée National d’art Moderne in Paris.
  Freund's major contributions to photography include using the Leica Camera for documentary reportage and her early experimentation with Kodachrome and 35 mm Agfacolor, which allowed her to develop a "uniquely candid portraiture style" that distinguishes her in 20th century photography.
  She is buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, France near her home and studio at 12 rue Lalande.
context_section_description: 2015 "Frida Kahlo: Mirror, Mirror."  (Throckmorton Fine Art, New York)
  2014 "Gisèle Freund: Photographic scenes and portraits" (Berlin, Academy of Arts)
  2014 "From Paris to Victoria: Gisèle Freund's James Joyce Photographs." University of Victoria, Canada
  2011-2012 "Gisèle Freund: L'Œil frontière, Paris 1933-1940", (Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent)
  2008 "Gisèle Freund, ritratti d'autore" Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy; "Gisèle Freund reframes Berlin, 1957-1962," Ephraim-Palais, Berlin.
  2006 "Susana Soca and her circles seen by Gisèle Freund," Maison de l'Amerique latine, Paris, France; Montevideo, Uruguay; Soca, Uruguay
  2002 "El mon i la meva camera-Gisèle Freund," Centre de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona; Fundacio Sa Nostra, Palma de Majorque, Spain
  1999 "Adrienne Monnier, Saint John Perse et les amis des livres," Musee Municipal Saint John Perse; Point-a-Pitre, and the Fondation Saint John Perse, Aix-en-Provence, France
  1996 "Gisèle Freund, 1st International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture, Paris 1935," Goethe Institute, Paris, France; Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany; "Malraux sous le regard de Gisele Freund, Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Verso Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Michiko Matsumoto, Tokyo, Japan; "Gisele Freund: Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris: Fotographien 1929-1962, Berliner Festspeil, Berlin, Germany
  1995 Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
  1994 Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
  1993 "Gisèle Freund," Seoul Museum, South Korea
  1992 Center for Contemporary Art, Mexico
  1991 "Gisèle Freund, Itinéraires," Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France; "Frida Kahlo et ses amis," Galerie de France, Paris.
  1991 Photo Art Gallery, Bale, France
  1989 "Gisèle Freund: James Joyce, 1939," Galerie de France, Paris, France; "Gisèle Freund, James Joyce in Paris," Galerie Anita Neugebauer, Photo Art Basel, Switzerland & Bale, France
  1988 "Gisèle Freund," Werkbund-Archiv, Museum der Alltagskultur des 20." Berlin, Germany
  1987 Galerie zur Stockeregg, Zurich, Switzerland; "Photographs of James Joyce and Friends" Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, New York, USA
  1986 "Itinéraires," Galerie de France, Paris
  1984 Fotoforum, Frankfurt, Germany
  1983 Boston National Library, USA; Center for Creative Art, New Orleans, USA; Stanford University Museum
  1982 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; The Photographers Gallery, London
  1981 Galerie municipale du Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, France; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, USA; Axiom Gallery, Sidney, Australia.
  1980 Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France; Photo Art Basel, Switzerland
  1979 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
  1978 Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Marcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
  1977 "A Retrospective," Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany [Gisèle Freund: Fotographien 1932-1977]; Musée Réattu, Arles; Fotoforum, Frankfurt; Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany; David Mirvich Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
  1976 Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
  1975 "Giselle Freund [sic]," Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, USA
  1973 Musee Descartes, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  1968 "Au pays des visages, 1938-1968: trente ans d'art et de litterature a travers la camera de Gisèle Freund [In the realm of faces: thirty years of art and literature through the lens of Gisèle Freund]." Musee Art moderne de la ville de Paris & Fondation Rayaumont, Asnieres-sur-Oise
  1966 American Centre, Paris, France
  1965 Princeton Art Museum, USA
  1964 "Ecrivains et artistes francais et britanniques." Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni, London, U.K.
  1963 "Le portrait francais au xxe siecle [French portraiture in the 20th Century]," Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cabinet des estampes, Paris, France & Berlin and Dusseldorf, Germany
  1962 Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville a Paris—Petit Palais, France
  1946 Maison de l'Amerique latine, Paris, France
  1945 Palacio de Bellas Artes, Valparaiso Galeria de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  1942 Galerie Amigos del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  1939 La Maison des Amis 
caption: Michel Dieuzaide (1981) Gisèle Freund (second at right) at the opening of her exhibition at Galerie municipale du Château d'eau, Toulouse, March 1981 with (from left) Michel Tournier, Jean Dieuzaide, Michel Delaborde, unidentified woman.
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