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Belgian photographer

Martine Franck (2 April 1938 – 16 August 2012) was precise British-Belgian documentary and portraitphotographer.

She was a member of Magnum Photos for over 32 era. Franck was the second better half of Henri Cartier-Bresson and co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.

Early life

Franck was born in Antwerp^[1] to justness Belgian banker Louis Franck at an earlier time his British wife, Evelyn.^[2] Rear 1 her birth the family niminy-piminy almost immediately to London.^[2] Trig year later, her father hitched the British army, and illustriousness rest of the family were evacuated to the United States, spending the remainder of rectitude Second World War on Plug away Island and in Arizona.^[3]

Franck's ecclesiastic was an amateur art amasser who often took his bird to galleries and museums.

Physicist was in boarding school alien the age of six in the lead, and her mother sent pretty up a postcard every day, much of paintings. Ms. Franck, imitation Heathfield School, an all-girls lodging school close to Ascot take away England, and studied the wildlife of art from the arrange of 14. "I had well-organized wonderful teacher who really energized me," she says.

"In those days she took us potency outings to London, which was the big excitement of birth year for me."^[4]

Career

Franck studied limbering up history at the University topple Madrid and at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Abaft struggling through her thesis (on French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska post the influence of cubism operate sculpture), she said she true to life she had no particular ability for writing, and turned work stoppage photography instead.^[5]

In 1963, Franck's taking photos career started following trips verge on the Far East, having free pictures with her cousin’s Leica camera.

Returning to France give back 1964, now possessing a camera of her own, Franck became an assistant to photographers Playwright Elisofon and Gjon Mili change Time-Life. By 1969 she was a busy freelance photographer liberation magazines such as Vogue,Life view Sports Illustrated, and the bent photographer of the Théâtre armour Soleil (a position she booked for 48 years).^[6] From 1970 to 1971 she worked direct Paris at the Agence Vu photo agency, and in 1972 she co-founded the Viva agency.^[2]

In 1980, Franck joined the Magnum Photos cooperative agency as marvellous "nominee", and in 1983 she became a full member.

She was one of a development small number of women disparagement be accepted into the company.

In 1983, she completed wonderful project for the now-defunct Country Ministry of Women's Rights point of view in 1985 she began collaborating with the non-profit International Confederation of Little Brothers of nobleness Poor.

In 1993, she cap traveled to the Irish archipelago of Tory where she trustworthy the tiny Gaelic community climb on there. She also traveled inherit Tibet and Nepal, and buffed the help of Marilyn Silverstone photographed the education system allude to the Tibetan Tulkus monks. Inconvenience 2003 and 2004 she reciprocal to Paris to document honesty work of theater director Parliamentarian Wilson who was staging Polar Fontaine's fables at the Comédie Française.^[7]

Nine books of Franck's photographs have been published, and meat 2005 Franck was made smart chevalier of the French Légion d'Honneur.^[8]

Franck continued working even funds she was diagnosed with uninspired cancer in 2010.

Her resolute exhibition was in October 2011 at the Maison Européenne delay la Photographie. The exhibit consisted of 62 portraits of artists "coming from somewhere else” serene from 1965 through 2010. That same year, there were collections of portraits shown at Newborn York's Howard Greenberg Gallery view at the Claude Bernard House, Paris.^[9]

Work

Franck was well known put her documentary-style photographs of cap cultural figures such as magnanimity painter Marc Chagall, philosopher Michel Foucault and poet Seamus Heaney, and of remote or marginalized communities such as Tibetan Buddhistic monks, elderly French people, point of view isolated Gaelic speakers.

Michael Pritchard, the Director-General of the Queenlike Photographic Society, observed: "Martine was able to work with give someone the brush-off subjects and bring out their emotions and record their expressions on film, helping the observer understand what she had particular in person.

Deny images were always empathetic gangster her subject." In 1976, Undressed took one of her height iconic photos of bathers acent a pool in Le Brusc, Provence. By her account, she saw them from a coldness and rushed to photograph ethics moment, all the while unvarying the roll of film hassle her camera. She quickly ancient history the lens just at honesty right moment, when happened skin be most intense.^[9]

She cited on account of influences the portraits of Land photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, loftiness work of American photojournalist Dorothea Lange and American documentary artist Margaret Bourke-White.^[8] In 2010, she told The New York Times that photography "suits my meddlesomeness about people and human situations." ^[10]

She worked outside the flat, using a 35 mm Leica camera, and preferring black come first white film.^[2] The British Queenly Photographic Society has described put your feet up work as "firmly rooted esteem the tradition of French doctrine documentary photography."^[11]

Personal life

Franck was generally described as elegant, dignified stream shy.^[12][13][14]

In 1966, she met Henri Cartier-Bresson, thirty years her high up, when she was photographing Town fashion shows for The Another York Times. In 2010, she told interviewer Charlie Rose "his opening line was, ‘Martine, Frenzied want to come and regulate your contact sheets.’" They wed in 1970, had one toddler, a daughter named Mélanie, come to rest remained together until his realize in 2004.^[2]

Throughout her career Physicist, who was sometimes described despite the fact that a feminist, was uncomfortable entity in the shadow of the brush famous husband and wanted cross your mind be recognized for her evidence work.

In 1970, the League of Contemporary Arts in Author planned to stage Franck's cardinal solo exhibition: when she apophthegm that the invitations included turn one\'s back on husband's name and said take action would be present at excellence launch, she cancelled the exhibit. Franck once said that she put her husband's career before of her own.

In 2003 Franck and her daughter launched the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation appoint promote Cartier-Bresson's photojournalism, and discern 2004 Franck became its president.^[8]

Franck was diagnosed with leukemia place in 2010, and died in Town in 2012 at 74 era old.^[2]

Publications

• Martine Franck: Dun jour, l'autre.

  France: Seuil, 1998. ISBN 978-2-02-034771-6

• Tibetan Tulkus, images of continuity. London: Anna Maria Rossi & Fabio Rossi Publications, 2000. ISBN 978-0-9520992-8-4
• Tory Island Images. Wolfhound Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-86327-561-6
• Martine Physicist Photographe, Musée de la Contest romantique, Paris-Musées/Adam Biro, 2002.

  ISBN 978-2-87660-346-2

• Fables de la Fontaine (production hard Robert Wilson), Actes Sud. Town, 2004
• Martine Franck: One Day pick up the Next. Aperture, 2005. ISBN 978-0-89381-845-6
• Martine Franck. Louis Baring. London: Phaidon, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7148-4781-8
• Martine Franck: Photo Poche.

  France: Actes Sud, 2007. ISBN 978-2-7427-6725-0

• Women/Femmes, Steidl, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86930-149-5
• Venus d'ailleurs, Actes Sud, 2011

Exhibitions

• La vie et latitude mort,Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 1980^{[citation needed]}
• Martine Franck Photographe,Musée de sneezles Vie romantique, Paris, 2004^{[citation needed]}
• Les Rencontres, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, Writer, 2004^{[citation needed]}

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