Gisèle Freund, the photographer who portrayed thought | Culture and entertainment | America Edition

Gisèle Freund was, in 1936, the author of the first university thesis dedicated to photography in the field of human sciences and took advantage of her stay in South America, fleeing the Nazis, to make a series of portraits of writers and intellectuals of a psychology so peculiar that it seemed to capture the depth of his thinking.

She was one of the first press reporters and hers is one of the most reproduced portraits of Ortega y Gasset – a close-up of the philosopher who looks at the camera while his hand, which supports his head resting on his cheek, seems to hold all the density and his ideas-, and the portraits of the entire generation of Latin American writers such as Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina and Victoria Ocampo …

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