Gisele Freund famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Portraits #Humans #Human Beings
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... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.
-- Gisele Freund

#Photography #Character #Mean
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 affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.
-- Gisele Freund

#Photography #Personality #Done
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. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.
-- Gisele Freund

#Photography #Men #Events
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.
-- Gisele Freund

#Photography #Lying #Mean
For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.
-- Gisele Freund

#Knowing #Essentials #Firsts
...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, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.
-- Gisele Freund

#Real #Hands #Theatre

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?
I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated!
We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Gisele Freund famous quotes

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