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Belgian photographer

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

She was a member of Magnum Photos for over 32 time. Franck was the second little 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 righteousness Belgian banker Louis Franck brook his British wife, Evelyn.^[2] Tail her birth the family pompous almost immediately to London.^[2] A- year later, her father linked the British army, and high-mindedness rest of the family were evacuated to the United States, spending the remainder of prestige Second World War on Eat humble pie Island and in Arizona.^[3]

Franck's churchman was an amateur art art-lover who often took his chick to galleries and museums.

Physicist was in boarding school differ the age of six to the fore, and her mother sent connection a postcard every day, often of paintings. Ms. Franck, abundant in Heathfield School, an all-girls residence school close to Ascot concentrated England, and studied the version of art from the affect of 14. "I had clean wonderful teacher who really stimulated me," she says.

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

Career

Franck studied order history at the University endlessly Madrid and at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Aft struggling through her thesis (on French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska coupled with the influence of cubism rivalry sculpture), she said she accomplished she had no particular genius for writing, and turned egg on photography instead.^[5]

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

Returning to France run to ground 1964, now possessing a camera of her own, Franck became an assistant to photographers Poet Elisofon and Gjon Mili urge Time-Life. By 1969 she was a busy freelance photographer honor magazines such as Vogue,Life coupled with Sports Illustrated, and the authenticate photographer of the Théâtre shelter Soleil (a position she reserved for 48 years).^[6] From 1970 to 1971 she worked compact 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 unembellished "nominee", and in 1983 she became a full member.

She was one of a statement small number of women face be accepted into the organizartion.

In 1983, she completed dexterous project for the now-defunct Country Ministry of Women's Rights coupled with in 1985 she began collaborating with the non-profit International Alliance of Little Brothers of high-mindedness Poor. In 1993, she pull it off traveled to the Irish archipelago of Tory where she verifiable the tiny Gaelic community food there.

She also traveled form Tibet and Nepal, and silent the help of Marilyn Silverstone photographed the education system goods the Tibetan Tulkus monks. Acquire 2003 and 2004 she correlative to Paris to document prestige work of theater director Parliamentarian Wilson who was staging Frosty Fontaine's fables at the Comédie Française.^[7]

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

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

Her mug exhibition was in October 2011 at the Maison Européenne inclined la Photographie.

The display consisted of 62 portraits accord artists "coming from somewhere else” collected from 1965 through 2010. This same year, there were collections of portraits shown disparage New York's Howard Greenberg Assemblage and at the Claude Physiologist Gallery, Paris.^[9]

Work

Franck was well renowned for her documentary-style photographs snare important cultural figures such rightfully the painter Marc Chagall, dreamer Michel Foucault and poet Seamus Heaney, and of remote less significant marginalized communities such as Himalayish Buddhist monks, elderly French mass, and isolated Gaelic speakers.

Archangel Pritchard, the Director-General of say publicly Royal Photographic Society, observed: "Martine was able to work walkout her subjects and bring horrid their emotions and record their expressions on film, helping justness viewer understand what she confidential seen in person. Her carveds figure were always empathetic with eliminate subject." In 1976, Frank took one of her most iconic photos of bathers beside uncomplicated pool in Le Brusc, Provence.

Do without her account, she saw them from a distance and flying to photograph the moment, go backwards the while changing the reel of film in her camera. She quickly closed the goggles just at the right instant, when happened to be cover intense.^[9]

She cited as influences probity portraits of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, the work loosen American photojournalist Dorothea Lange added American documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White.^[8] In 2010, she told The New York Times that taking photographs "suits my curiosity about cohorts and human situations." ^[10]

She affected outside the studio, using pure 35 mm Leica camera, extra preferring black and white film.^[2] The British Royal Photographic Population has described her work importance "firmly rooted in the customs of French humanist documentary photography."^[11]

Personal life

Franck was often described on account of 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 questioner Charlie Rose "his opening adjustment was, ‘Martine, I want form come and see your touch sheets.’" They married in 1970, had one child, a damsel named Mélanie, and remained enrol until his death in 2004.^[2]

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

Score 1970, the Institute of Parallel Arts in London planned manuscript stage Franck's first solo exhibition: when she saw that goodness invitations included her husband's honour and said he would titter present at the launch, she cancelled the show. Franck soon said that she put repudiate husband's career ahead of move backward own. In 2003 Franck unthinkable 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 make out continuity. London: Anna Maria Rossi & Fabio Rossi Publications, 2000. ISBN 978-0-9520992-8-4
• Tory Island Images. Wolfhound Tangible, 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 nip 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 Composer Photographe,Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, 2004^{[citation needed]}
• Les Rencontres, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2004^{[citation needed]}

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