In the Oh-so-Distant South

This book, published on the occasion on the exhibition to be held at the Centro Jose Guerrero in Granada, curated by Juan Manuel Bonet, presents an unknown part of Gisele Freund’s personal collection: the portraits of Spanish-American personalities, intellectuals, writers and artists. These photographs reveal Gisele Freund’s life journey, from her beginnings in Paris, through her period of exile in Argentina, her stays in Uruguay, Chile and Mexico, to her final period back in Europe. During her time there, Gisele Freund took photographs of important personalities such as Julio Cortazar, Pablo Neruda, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Eva Peron, Roberto Matta, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, among others. AUTHOR: Gisele Freund (Berlin, 1908- Paris, 2000) was a German photographer of Jewish origin who was forced to leave her country in 1933 due to Hitler’s rise to power. She studied sociology in Frankfurt and became interested in photography at an early age, when her father gave her a Leica camera. In France she continued her studies at the Sorbonne, worked for the Magnum agency and began to work for various magazines as a photojournalist. She was considered a Communist sympathiser and moved to Latin America at the outbreak of the Second World War, where her career as a photographer focused on photo portraits of personalities and landscapes.
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