Photomeetings luxembourg 2008
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10/9/2008
Photomeetings luxembourg 2008
Different venues, Luxembourg
Photojournalism and Portraiture: tribute to Gisele Freund on her 100th anniversary. Born in Berlin in 1908, Freund was one of Europe's most prominent photographers and a pillar among French feminist intellectuals after fleeing Nazi Germany. As the only female founding member of Magnum, she earned her living as a photojournalist. Workshops, Lectures, Exhibitions.
Photojournalism and Portraiture
Tribute to Gisèle Freund on her 100th anniversary
Born in Berlin in 1908, Gisèle Freund was one of Europe’s most prominent photographers and a pillar among French feminist intellectuals after fleeing Nazi Germany and settling in Paris in the 1930’s, where she pursued her doctoral studies at the Sorbonne. Her thesis on photography in France in the 19th century was met with
scepticism, because photography was not considered a serious study then.
In the course of her long career, she went on about 80 photographic assignments around the world, mainly for Time and Life. As the only female founding member of Magnum, she earned her living as a photojournalist. Today however, she is noted for being one of the greatest portrait photographers ever. “She was able, better than anyone, to reveal the essence of beings through their expressions,” said Ex-President Jacques Chirac.
She captured André Malraux on a Paris rooftop, Aldous Huxley and André Gide at a
congress for the defence of culture; Walter Benjamin sitting on a bench in the Bibli-
otheque Nationale; Vladimir Nabokov, Henri Michaux and Jean Paulhan in the edito-
rial offices of the magazine Mesures and James Joyce playing the piano for his son.
She shot the first colour portraits of Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Valéry, Colette, André
Breton, Virginia Woolf, and numerous writers and artists that will remain unforgett-
able in our memory.
During the years I worked with her, showing her photographs in my gallery in Lux-
embourg and in museums and exhibition spaces in Germany and France, she was a
constant source of inspiration to me. I am honoured to devote the 4th edition of pho-
tomeetings luxembourg to her memory on her 100th anniversary:
A combination of workshops, lectures and exhibitions by renowned photographers,
theorists and specialists in the field of photojournalism and portraiture will be on offer
to all those with an interest in photography and sociology. Welcome to the photomeet-
ings luxembourg 2008!
Marita Ruiter
Cover: Gisèle Freund, Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, 1952
Director Marita Ruiter, Galerie Clairefontaine
Artistic committee: Jessica Backhaus / René Burri / Klaus Honnef / Herlinde Koelbl /
Hans-Michael Koetzle / Joachim Ladefoged / Paula Muhr / Georg Stefan Troller
Organized by Art-Fountain a.s.b.l.
Marita Ruiter / Sandy Stephany
For further information phone +352 47 23 24 / galerie.clairefontaine@pt.lu
http://www.galerie-clairefontaine.lu / info@photomeetings.lu / http://www.photomeetings.lu
Symposium and exhibition at the University of Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg Bâtiment des sciences
Exhibitions at
Galerie Clairefontaine Espace 1 & 2
Guided tours at Clearstream Deutsche Boerse on reservation