Gisele Freund - photo exhibit I'd like to see, in Berlin

No, but I was really surprised to see my name floating about. I don't see it very often anywhere.

I thought of you...

Montana, I still don't know how to pronouce it for sure.

Awwwww!!! You did? :-D

I'll do the best I can to describe how it sounds.

Jizel ;-)

Ok, then, I understand that..

I don't know where I got it, but I thought for a while that it was something like..

get ready...

Ghee' -se-ley.

From any online exploration I do, it seems I made that up, nothing to do with reality.

Ah, anyway, the photographer is interesting.

Yeah, you were waaaayyyyyyy off

I just read the story and it was an interesting read.

Actually, she was born with the old German name Gisela

I've seen some of her work years ago, in Paris and Braunschweig ('Brunswick') (I think).

Online, some works here, and here from Berlin (click on the arrow below photo/right top for slide show)

I'm looking for info on what kind of film Freund used, does anyone have any clue how she got the kind of color she did?

Not me, but I'm glad to see the thread keep going.

I'll nose around to see if I can find out, but you probably already have googled. One of our best photographers here is off on a world type tour, lucky man, but I can private message him to see if he would look at this thread in case he has any advice..
edit to say it might take some time for him to see my message.

Perhaps there are books on her and her work, maybe with info that isn't just floating around online.

I'm photographer and can tell you some of the technical details, however not the historic specifics you're asking.

I did some research and notice that in one of the pictures I can tell the type and model of camera she the used (at least in her later years) but not specifically or exactly the type of film.

FYI, I own the same medium-format camera Rolleiflex TLR (Twin Lens Reflex). She would've used a specific type of roll film camera in later post-WWII - say after '49, For example, mine is a similar model dates to 1963...hers in that image was probably post-1950).

The color film choices available for it were only a few for this timeframe. The color fidelity is high..so that'd rule out conversion from slide film of the day.

correction: in a later photography self-portrait, she clearly used a Rolleicord (not Rolleiflex as I previously thought). These models are fairly similar, however. many times those 2 models (Rolleicord and Rolleiflex TLR used either Zeiss or Schneider lenses. Sharpest lenses of their day.

Furthermore, I found the following info out about her use of films.

"Freund's major contributions to photography include using the Leica Camera (with its 36 frames) for documentary reportage and her early experimentation with Kodachrome and 35 mm Agfacolor, which allowed her to develop a "uniquely candid portraiture style" that distinguishes her in 20th century photography.
She is buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, France near her home and studio at 12 rue Lalande."

However, I'll add that afterwards (from the '80s onward), many of these works may have been 'improved' with modern print processing techniques. It might be hard to say what her first prints appearnce in display was in her lifetime.