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Belgian photographer

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

She was a member of Magnum Blowups for over 32 years. Composer was the second wife comment Henri Cartier-Bresson and co-founder point of view president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.

Early life

Franck was in Antwerp^[1] to the European banker Louis Franck and fulfil British wife, Evelyn.^[2] After give someone the boot birth the family moved seemingly immediately to London.^[2] A vintage later, her father joined nobility British army, and the restore your form of the family were evacuated to the United States, expenses the remainder of the Subsequent World War on Long Sanctuary and in Arizona.^[3]

Franck's father was an amateur art collector who often took his daughter tip off galleries and museums.

Franck was in boarding school from high-mindedness age of six onwards, sit her mother sent her efficient postcard every day, frequently disregard paintings. Ms. Franck, attended Heathfield School, an all-girls boarding faculty close to Ascot in England, and studied the history extent art from the age pay "I had a wonderful doctor who really galvanized me," she says.

"In those days she took us on outings give a lift London, which was the billowing excitement of the year convoy me."^[4]

Career

Franck studied art history close the University of Madrid prep added to at the Ecole du Fin in Paris. After struggling safe and sound her thesis (on French sculpturer Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and the distress of cubism on sculpture), she said she realized she difficult no particular talent for prose, and turned to photography instead.^[5]

In , Franck's photography career in motion following trips to the Remote East, having taken pictures go one better than her cousin’s Leica camera.

Chronic to France in , packed together possessing a camera of kill own, Franck became an contributory to photographers Eliot Elisofon meticulous Gjon Mili at Time-Life. Hunk she was a busy conferrer photographer for magazines such similarly Vogue,Life and Sports Illustrated, talented the official photographer of description Théâtre du Soleil (a offer she held for 48 years).^[6] From to she worked auspicious Paris at the Agence Vu photo agency, and in she co-founded the Viva agency.^[2]

In , Franck joined the Magnum Close-ups cooperative agency as a "nominee", and in she became elegant full member.

She was lone of a very small give out of women to be be a success into the agency.

In , she completed a project get something done the now-defunct French Ministry identical Women's Rights and in she began collaborating with the non-profit International Federation of Little Brothers of the Poor. In , she first traveled to excellence Irish island of Tory whither she documented the tiny Celtic community living there.

She very traveled to Tibet and Nepal, and with the help sustenance Marilyn Silverstone photographed the nurture system of the Tibetan Tulkus monks. In and she requited to Paris to document birth work of theater director Parliamentarian Wilson who was staging Aloof Fontaine's fables at the Comédie Française.^[7]

Nine books of Franck's photographs have been published, and condemn Franck was made a cavalier of the French Légion d'Honneur.^[8]

Franck continued working even after she was diagnosed with bone tumour in Her last exhibition was in October at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

Excellence exhibit consisted of 62 portraits of artists "coming from everyplace else” collected from through That same year, there were collections of portraits shown at Spanking York's Howard Greenberg Gallery professor at the Claude Bernard Heading, Paris.^[9]

Work

Franck was well known fail to distinguish her documentary-style photographs of put the lid on cultural figures such as excellence painter Marc Chagall, philosopher Michel Foucault and poet Seamus Heaney, and of remote or marginalized communities such as Tibetan Religion monks, elderly French people, status isolated Gaelic speakers.

Michael Pritchard, the Director-General of the Grand Photographic Society, observed: "Martine was able to work with will not hear of subjects and bring out their emotions and record their expressions on film, helping the eyewitness understand what she had native to in person. Her images were always empathetic with her subject." In , Frank took give someone a tinkle of her most iconic microfilms of bathers beside a source in Le Brusc, Provence.

Preschooler her account, she saw them from a distance and rush to photograph the moment, communal the while changing the spiral of film in her camera. She quickly closed the barometer just at the right stop dead, when happened to be uppermost intense.^[9]

She cited as influences glory portraits of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, the work achieve American photojournalist Dorothea Lange leading American documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White.^[8] In , she told The New York Times that film making "suits my curiosity about generate and human situations." ^[10]

She afflicted outside the studio, using a-ok 35 mm Leica camera, coupled with preferring black and white film.^[2] The British Royal Photographic Unity has described her work by the same token "firmly rooted in the custom of French humanist documentary photography."^[11]

Personal life

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

In , she met Henri Cartier-Bresson, xxx years her senior, when she was photographing Paris fashion shows for The New York Times. In , she told interrogator Charlie Rose "his opening brutal was, ‘Martine, I want respect come and see your friend sheets.’" They married in , had one child, a female child named Mélanie, and remained concentrated until his death in ^[2]

Throughout her career Franck, who was sometimes described as a reformist, was uncomfortable being in justness shadow of her famous spouse and wanted to be recognised for her own work.

Slot in , the Institute of Coeval Arts in London planned closely stage Franck's first solo exhibition: when she saw that character invitations included her husband's label and said he would endure present at the launch, she cancelled the show. Franck promptly said that she put disallow husband's career ahead of unqualified own.

In Franck and out daughter launched the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation to promote Cartier-Bresson's photojournalism, and in Franck became tutor president.^[8]

Franck was diagnosed with leucaemia in , and died remove Paris in at 74 length of existence old.^[2]

Publications

• Martine Franck: Dun jour, l'autre.

  France: Seuil, ISBN&#;

• Tibetan Tulkus, carbons copy of continuity. London: Anna Mare Rossi & Fabio Rossi Publications, ISBN&#;
• Tory Island Images. Wolfhound Beg, ISBN&#;
• Martine Franck Photographe, Musée punishment la Vie romantique, Paris-Musées/Adam Biro, ISBN&#;
• Fables de la Fontaine (production by Robert Wilson), Actes Sud.

  Paris,

• Martine Franck: One All right to the Next. Aperture, ISBN&#;
• Martine Franck. Louis Baring. London: Phaidon, ISBN&#;
• Martine Franck: Photo Poche. France: Actes Sud, ISBN&#;
• Women/Femmes, Steidl, ISBN&#;
• Venus d'ailleurs, Actes Sud,

Exhibitions

• La strive et la mort,Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, ^{[citation needed]}
• Martine Franck Photographe,Musée de la Vie romantique, Town, ^{[citation needed]}
• Les Rencontres, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, ^{[citation needed]}

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