Sabine Weiss

The last living member of the French humanist picture school Sabine Weiss has been awarded as Woman in Motion (photography) by Kering and the Arles Meetings. This award tributes a life dedicated to picture making since the 1930's when she received her first camera. With the agreement ant the support of her father she follows photography studies at Geneva before going to Paris after WWII. There she meets the French vanguard (Brassaï, Doisneau, Cartier - Bresson, Ronis, Boubat, Izis) known as the French humanist picture school. They all want to forget the cruelty of war and underlining the human being in a rebuilding country with the help of the Americans. The Sabine Weiss pictures are optimistic and full of feelings in a world where everything seems to be possible. Sabine Weiss has also worked as photojournalist for the picture agency Gamma - Rapho and cover several places (Ethiopia, Egypt, Reunion, ...) all over the world for doing that. The Sabine Weiss pictures highlights human being and his diversity.

The young children of Paris photographed by Sabine Weiss in 1952.

Jacques Henri Lartigue, a floating world - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Exhibition from the 17th of June to the 25th of September at the Théâtre de la photographie et de l'image, 27 boulevard Dubouchage, 06000 Nice, open everyday except Mondays, from 10am to 6pm, phone

http://artetcinemas.over-blog.com/2016/08/jacques-henri-lartigue-a-floating-world.html

Helmut Newton, Icons - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Inaugural exhibition at the Museum of the photography from the 17th of February to the 28th of May 2017, 1 Place Pierre Gautier, 06000 Nice, open everyday except Monday from 11am to 6pm. The ...

http://artetcinemas.over-blog.com/2017/03/helmut-newton-icons.html

The photography for James Barnor - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

The Ghanaian photographer James Barnor comes from a family where a lot of people (mother, cousins) are attracted by shooting. This autodidact is born June 6, 1921 in Accra the capital of Ghana and ...

http://artetcinemas.over-blog.com/2018/01/the-photography-for-james-barnor.html

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