Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmati…

- Gisele Freund

Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photog…

- Gisele Freund

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

- Gisele Freund

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, ide…

- Gisele Freund

The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that i…

- Gisele Freund

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... …

- Gisele Freund

For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.

- Gisele Freund