PHOTOGRAPHY & SOCIETY by Freund, Giséle - 1980

Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. First U.S. edition. Freund, Gisele. 8vo., 231 pp., illustrated with numerous b&w photographs. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Gisèle Freund (1908-2000) fled Germany in 1933 with her camera and some negatives. She arrived in Paris and began doctoral work in sociology. Exposed to art during childhood by her collector parents, her photographs combine a highly developed sense of aesthetics with a sociological interest in the subject. Her thesis work, begun in Germany and finished in Paris, was on the sociological impact of the camera on the art of the portrait.