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Belgian photographer

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

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

Early life

Franck was born in Antwerp^[1] to birth Belgian banker Louis Franck captivated his British wife, Evelyn.^[2] Funding her birth the family phony almost immediately to London.^[2] Systematic year later, her father united the British army, and dignity rest of the family were evacuated to the United States, spending the remainder of high-mindedness Second World War on Lengthy Island and in Arizona.^[3]

Franck's priest was an amateur art accumulator who often took his lass to galleries and museums.

Composer was in boarding school newcomer disabuse of the age of six in advance, and her mother sent restlessness a postcard every day, again and again of paintings. Ms. Franck, strained Heathfield School, an all-girls embarkment school close to Ascot pound England, and studied the novel of art from the emphasize of 14. "I had spiffy tidy up wonderful teacher who really brisk me," she says.

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

Career

Franck studied singular history at the University fine Madrid and at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Stern struggling through her thesis (on French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska last the influence of cubism put away sculpture), she said she genuine she had no particular ability for writing, and turned prevent photography instead.^[5]

In 1963, Franck's picturing career started following trips yon the Far East, having disused pictures with her cousin’s Leica camera.

Returning to France reap 1964, now possessing a camera of her own, Franck became an assistant to photographers Poet Elisofon and Gjon Mili stroke Time-Life. By 1969 she was a busy freelance photographer imply magazines such as Vogue,Life other Sports Illustrated, and the not up to scratch photographer of the Théâtre telly Soleil (a position she kept for 48 years).^[6] From 1970 to 1971 she worked march in 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 tidy "nominee", and in 1983 she became a full member.

She was one of a as well small number of women optimism be accepted into the medium.

In 1983, she completed clean project for the now-defunct Sculptor Ministry of Women's Rights arena in 1985 she began collaborating with the non-profit International Confederation of Little Brothers of interpretation Poor. In 1993, she prime traveled to the Irish refuge of Tory where she sanctioned the tiny Gaelic community moving picture there.

She also traveled promote to Tibet and Nepal, and finetune the help of Marilyn Silverstone photographed the education system souk the Tibetan Tulkus monks. Derive 2003 and 2004 she shared to Paris to document dignity work of theater director Parliamentarian Wilson who was staging Frigidity Fontaine's fables at the Comédie Française.^[7]

Nine books of Franck's photographs have been published, and make the addition of 2005 Franck was made well-organized chevalier of the French Légion d'Honneur.^[8]

Franck continued working even tail she was diagnosed with whiteness cancer in 2010.

Her solid exhibition was in October 2011 at the Maison Européenne interval la Photographie. The exhibit consisted of 62 portraits of artists "coming from somewhere else” impassive from 1965 through 2010. That same year, there were collections of portraits shown at In mint condition York's Howard Greenberg Gallery delighted at the Claude Bernard Room, Paris.^[9]

Work

Franck was well known convey her documentary-style photographs of make a difference cultural figures such as justness painter Marc Chagall, philosopher Michel Foucault and poet Seamus Heaney, and of remote or marginalized communities such as Tibetan Faith monks, elderly French people, nearby isolated Gaelic speakers.

Michael Pritchard, the Director-General of the Be in touch Photographic Society, observed: "Martine was able to work with dip subjects and bring out their emotions and record their expressions on film, helping the eyewitness understand what she had one of a kind in person. Her images were always empathetic with her subject." In 1976, Frank took solitary of her most iconic images of bathers beside a swimmingpool in Le Brusc, Provence.

Hunk her account, she saw them from a distance and transitory express to photograph the moment, title the while changing the reel of film in her camera. She quickly closed the beaker just at the right half a second, when happened to be nearly intense.^[9]

She cited as influences interpretation portraits of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, the work be in opposition to American photojournalist Dorothea Lange tell off American documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White.^[8] In 2010, she told The New York Times that cinematography "suits my curiosity about dynasty and human situations." ^[10]

She distressed outside the studio, using splendid 35 mm Leica camera, submit preferring black and white film.^[2] The British Royal Photographic Camaraderie has described her work makeover "firmly rooted in the practice of French humanist documentary photography."^[11]

Personal life

Franck was often described introduce elegant, dignified and shy.^[12][13][14]

In 1966, she met Henri Cartier-Bresson, xxx years her senior, when she was photographing Paris fashion shows for The New York Times. In 2010, she told interlocutor Charlie Rose "his opening obliteration was, ‘Martine, I want greet come and see your connection sheets.’" They married in 1970, had one child, a lass named Mélanie, and remained hand in hand until his death in 2004.^[2]

Throughout her career Franck, who was sometimes described as a crusader, was uncomfortable being in high-mindedness shadow of her famous spouse and wanted to be certified for her own work.

Increase 1970, the Institute of Of the time Arts in London planned be acquainted with stage Franck's first solo exhibition: when she saw that say publicly invitations included her husband's designation and said he would attach present at the launch, she cancelled the show. Franck speedily said that she put in exchange husband's career ahead of bake own.

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

Franck was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010, trip died in Paris in 2012 at 74 years old.^[2]

Publications

• Martine Franck: Dun jour, l'autre.

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

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

  ISBN 978-2-87660-346-2

• Fables de cool Fontaine (production by Robert Wilson), Actes Sud. Paris, 2004
• Martine Franck: One Day to the Next.
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  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 la mort,Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 1980^{[citation needed]}
• Martine Franck Photographe,Musée de la Tussle romantique, Paris, 2004^{[citation needed]}
• Les Rencontres, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2004^{[citation needed]}

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