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In a 2010 interview with Charlie Rose, photographer Martine Franck gave an insight into how she first got together with her husband, renowned Magnum founder Henri Cartier-Bresson: “Martine,” Bresson had apparently said to Franck, by way of showing his romantic interest, “I want to come and see your contact sheets.”
Link: Martine Franck: Regards de Femme I | Le Journal de la Photographie
Link: Martine Franck: Regards de Femme II | Le Journal de la Photographie
Strangely, this photograph is probably my most famous. There is usually a sort of consensus about “good photos”. I don’t really know why this one is popular
Link: Tribute to Martine Franck: Carole Naggar | Le Journal de la Photographie
Martine, it is difficult to talk about you with the past tense. The times we spent together remain as drops of light in the greyness of everyday. In Paris, riddled with absence, your long silhouette has joined the shadow of the greatest too early: Kertesz, Doisneau, Boubat, Ronis, and your husband Henri, and I don’t get used to it.
Link: Tribute to Martine Franck: Lucien Clergue | Le Journal de la Photographie
Martine was 74 when she left us. Only the illness that had weakened her in recent years had reminded us of her age, so young she was at heart, seeing the world with eyes wide open
Link: Martine Franck: Regards de Femme III | Le Journal de la Photographie
Link: Tribute to Martine Franck: Jinx Rodger | Le Journal de la Photographie
Link: Tribute to Martine Franck: Peter Galassi | Le Journal de la Photographie
Link: Tribute to Martine Franck: Pauline Vermare | Le Journal de la Photographie
Link: Tribute to Martine Franck: Inge Bondi | Le Journal de la Photographie
Link: Tribute to Martine Franck: Hélène Veret | Le Journal de la Photographie
Link: Tribute to Martine Franck: Laurence Cornet | Le Journal de la Photographie
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“Martine was one classic Magnum photographer we could all agree with,” said photographer Elliott Erwitt. “Talented, charming, wise, modest and generous, she set a standard of class not often found in our profession. She will be profoundly missed.”
Martine Franck is not just a photographer but a photographer’s subject. Mark Bussell wondered what that felt like. She told him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/archive-18/
I’ve been struck by how often she captures people in the act of looking. Was she was specifically pursuing these moments? Or, because she herself was thinking about seeing, did she subconsciously respond to subjects who were doing the same thing? Her answer to both questions: “No doubt yes.”
Link: Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia:
This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national identity. The book is curated and published by Chris Boot, a former Magnum director in London.