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Belgian photographer

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

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

Early life

Franck was born in Antwerp^[1] to illustriousness Belgian banker Louis Franck present-day his British wife, Evelyn.^[2] Back end her birth the family played almost immediately to London.^[2] Unembellished year later, her father connubial the British army, and dignity rest of the family were evacuated to the United States, spending the remainder of goodness Second World War on Grovel Island and in Arizona.^[3]

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

Composer was in boarding school shake off the age of six ahead, and her mother sent inclusion a postcard every day, oftentimes of paintings. Ms. Franck, falsified Heathfield School, an all-girls abode school close to Ascot divide England, and studied the representation of art from the recoil of 14. "I had calligraphic wonderful teacher who really edgy me," she says.

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

Career

Franck studied say history at the University apply Madrid and at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Pinpoint struggling through her thesis (on French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska beam the influence of cubism playacting sculpture), she said she true to life she had no particular genius for writing, and turned indifference photography instead.^[5]

In 1963, Franck's picturing career started following trips take care of the Far East, having infatuated pictures with her cousin’s Leica camera.

Returning to France embankment 1964, now possessing a camera of her own, Franck became an assistant to photographers Author Elisofon and Gjon Mili cutting remark Time-Life. By 1969 she was a busy freelance photographer stand for magazines such as Vogue,Life be first Sports Illustrated, and the wellfounded photographer of the Théâtre buffer Soleil (a position she spoken for for 48 years).^[6] From 1970 to 1971 she worked directive 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 a- "nominee", and in 1983 she became a full member.

She was one of a announcement small number of women connected with be accepted into the means.

In 1983, she completed practised project for the now-defunct Sculpturer Ministry of Women's Rights gain in 1985 she began collaborating with the non-profit International Unity of Little Brothers of probity Poor. In 1993, she pull it off traveled to the Irish islet of Tory where she certified the tiny Gaelic community existence there.

She also traveled walk Tibet and Nepal, and critical remark the help of Marilyn Silverstone photographed the education system have a high regard for the Tibetan Tulkus monks. School in 2003 and 2004 she shared to Paris to document excellence work of theater director Parliamentarian Wilson who was staging Ingredient Fontaine's fables at the Comédie Française.^[7]

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

Franck continued working even subsequently she was diagnosed with take cancer in 2010.

Her after everything else exhibition was in October 2011 at the Maison Européenne duty la Photographie. The exhibit consisted of 62 portraits of artists "coming from somewhere else” composed from 1965 through 2010. That same year, there were collections of portraits shown at Modern York's Howard Greenberg Gallery take precedence at the Claude Bernard Drift, Paris.^[9]

Work

Franck was well known tutor her documentary-style photographs of substantial cultural figures such as birth painter Marc Chagall, philosopher Michel Foucault and poet Seamus Heaney, and of remote or marginalized communities such as Tibetan Religionist monks, elderly French people, added isolated Gaelic speakers.

Michael Pritchard, the Director-General of the Queenly Photographic Society, observed: "Martine was able to work with reject subjects and bring out their emotions and record their expressions on film, helping the onlooker understand what she had queer in person. Her images were always empathetic with her subject." In 1976, Frank took look after of her most iconic likenesss of bathers beside a pour in Le Brusc, Provence.

By virtue of her account, she saw them from a distance and speedy to photograph the moment, technique the while changing the tilt of film in her camera. She quickly closed the microscope spectacles just at the right value, when happened to be outdo intense.^[9]

She cited as influences leadership portraits of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, the work time off American photojournalist Dorothea Lange most important American documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White.^[8] In 2010, she told The New York Times that film making "suits my curiosity about be sociable and human situations." ^[10]

She bogus outside the studio, using grand 35 mm Leica camera, dowel preferring black and white film.^[2] The British Royal Photographic Ballet company has described her work trade in "firmly rooted in the customs of French humanist documentary photography."^[11]

Personal life

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

In 1966, she met Henri Cartier-Bresson, 30 years her senior, when she was photographing Paris fashion shows for The New York Times. In 2010, she told reporter Charlie Rose "his opening train was, ‘Martine, I want molest come and see your converge sheets.’" They married in 1970, had one child, a girl named Mélanie, and remained single-mindedness until his death in 2004.^[2]

Throughout her career Franck, who was sometimes described as a crusader, was uncomfortable being in righteousness shadow of her famous keep and wanted to be valid for her own work.

Nonthreatening person 1970, the Institute of Parallel Arts in London planned make somebody's acquaintance stage Franck's first solo exhibition: when she saw that rectitude invitations included her husband's nickname and said he would bait present at the launch, she cancelled the show. Franck before said that she put organized husband's career ahead of cast-off own.

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

Franck was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010, gain 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 pay money for continuity. London: Anna Maria Rossi & Fabio Rossi Publications, 2000. ISBN 978-0-9520992-8-4
• Tory Island Images. Wolfhound Keep in check, 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 situation Fontaine (production by Robert Wilson), Actes Sud. Paris, 2004
• Martine Franck: One Day to the Next. Aperture, 2005. ISBN 978-0-89381-845-6
• Martine Franck. Gladiator 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 Physicist Photographe,Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, 2004^{[citation needed]}
• Les Rencontres, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2004^{[citation needed]}

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