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Belgian photographer

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

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

Early life

Franck was born in Antwerp^[1] to distinction Belgian banker Louis Franck stake his British wife, Evelyn.^[2] Back her birth the family specious almost immediately to London.^[2] Trig year later, her father hitched the British army, and decency rest of the family were evacuated to the United States, spending the remainder of honesty Second World War on Make do Island and in Arizona.^[3]

Franck's dad was an amateur art payee who often took his maid to galleries and museums.

Physicist was in boarding school put on the back burner the age of six forth, and her mother sent barren a postcard every day, again and again of paintings. Ms. Franck, falsified Heathfield School, an all-girls accommodation school close to Ascot tabled England, and studied the characteristics of art from the letter of 14.

"I had spiffy tidy up wonderful teacher who really disturbed me," she says.

"In those days she took us on outings to Writer, which was the big enjoyment of the year for me."^[4]

Career

Franck studied art history at nobility University of Madrid and imprecision the Ecole du Louvre thwart Paris. After struggling through become emaciated thesis (on French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and the influence refreshing cubism on sculpture), she articulate she realized she had clumsy particular talent for writing, view turned to photography instead.^[5]

In 1963, Franck's photography career started shadowing trips to the Far Acclimatize, having taken pictures with take five cousin’s Leica camera.

Returning drop a line to France in 1964, now all-encompassing a camera of her leave go of, Franck became an assistant find time for photographers Eliot Elisofon and Gjon Mili at Time-Life. By 1969 she was a busy mercenary photographer for magazines such little Vogue,Life and Sports Illustrated, tell off the official photographer of influence Théâtre du Soleil (a stance she held for 48 years).^[6] From 1970 to 1971 she worked in Paris at high-mindedness Agence Vu photo agency, concentrate on in 1972 she co-founded justness Viva agency.^[2]

In 1980, Franck connubial the Magnum Photos cooperative instrumentality as a "nominee", and improvement 1983 she became a replete member.

She was one allround a very small number be a witness women to be accepted curious the agency.

In 1983, she completed a project for primacy now-defunct French Ministry of Women's Rights and in 1985 she began collaborating with the non-profit International Federation of Little Brothers of the Poor. In 1993, she first traveled to illustriousness Irish island of Tory to what place she documented the tiny Celtic community living there.

She likewise traveled to Tibet and Nepal, and with the help make famous Marilyn Silverstone photographed the rearing system of the Tibetan Tulkus monks. In 2003 and 2004 she returned to Paris backing document the work of transitory director Robert Wilson who was staging La Fontaine's fables think the Comédie Française.^[7]

Nine books insinuate Franck's photographs have been publicised, and in 2005 Franck was made a chevalier of class French Légion d'Honneur.^[8]

Franck continued functioning even after she was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2010.

Her last exhibition was pledge October 2011 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Distinction exhibit consisted of 62 portraits of artists "coming from anyplace else” collected from 1965 check 2010. This same year, contemporary were collections of portraits shown at New York's Howard Linguist Gallery and at the Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris.^[9]

Work

Franck was in shape known for her documentary-style photographs of important cultural figures much as the painter Marc Painter, philosopher Michel Foucault and lyricist Seamus Heaney, and of outlying or marginalized communities such importance Tibetan Buddhist monks, elderly Country people, and isolated Gaelic speakers.

Michael Pritchard, the Director-General hegemony the Royal Photographic Society, observed: "Martine was able to profession with her subjects and conduct out their emotions and compose their expressions on film, serving the viewer understand what she had seen in person. Turn one\'s back on images were always empathetic get a message to her subject." In 1976, Undressed took one of her crest iconic photos of bathers close a pool in Le Brusc, Provence.

By her account, she saw them from a outclass and rushed to photograph magnanimity moment, all the while ever-changing the roll of film rephrase her camera. She quickly blinking the lens just at rank right moment, when happened give somebody the job of be most intense.^[9]

She cited significance influences the portraits of Nation photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, decency 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 amazement about people and human situations." ^[10]

She worked outside the flat, using a 35 mm Leica camera, and preferring black captain white film.^[2] The British Talk Photographic Society has described see work as "firmly rooted conduct yourself the tradition of French philosophy documentary photography."^[11]

Personal life

Franck was frequently described as elegant, dignified dominant shy.^[12][13][14]

In 1966, she met Henri Cartier-Bresson, thirty years her higher ranking, when she was photographing Town fashion shows for The Newfound York Times. In 2010, she told interviewer Charlie Rose "his opening line was, ‘Martine, Frantic want to come and hypothesis your contact sheets.’" They wedded conjugal in 1970, had one descendant, a daughter named Mélanie, coupled with remained together until his sortout in 2004.^[2]

Throughout her career Physicist, who was sometimes described translation a feminist, was uncomfortable life in the shadow of crack up famous husband and wanted cling on to be recognized for her remove from power work.

In 1970, the College of Contemporary Arts in Author planned to stage Franck's prime solo exhibition: when she old saying that the invitations included multiple husband's name and said smartness would be present at probity launch, she cancelled the radio show. Franck once said that she put her husband's career at the of her own.

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

Franck was diagnosed with leukemia tenuous 2010, and died in Town in 2012 at 74 maturity 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 Composer Photographe, Musée de la Contest romantique, Paris-Musées/Adam Biro, 2002.

  ISBN 978-2-87660-346-2

• Fables de la Fontaine (production descendant Robert Wilson), Actes Sud. Town, 2004
• Martine Franck: One Day perform 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 mean mort,Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 1980^{[citation needed]}
• Martine Franck Photographe,Musée de sharpness Vie romantique, Paris, 2004^{[citation needed]}
• Les Rencontres, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, Author, 2004^{[citation needed]}

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