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Belgian photographer

Martine Franck
Franck in , by Henri-Cartier Bresson
Born	()2 April Antwerp, Belgium
Died	16 August () (aged&#;74) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Documentary and portrait photographer
Spouse
Children	1

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

She was a member of Magnum Photos for over 32 years.

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Franck was the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson and co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.

Early life

Franck was born in Antwerp^[1] to the Belgian banker Louis Franck and his British wife, Evelyn.^[2] After her birth the family moved almost immediately to London.^[2] A year later, her father joined the British army, and the rest of the family were evacuated to the United States, spending the remainder of the Second World War on Long Island and in Arizona.^[3]

Franck's father was an amateur art collector who often took his daughter to galleries and museums.

Franck was in boarding school from the age of six onwards, and her mother sent her a postcard every day, frequently of paintings. Ms. Franck, attended Heathfield School, an all-girls boarding school close to Ascot in England, and studied the history of art from the age of "I had a wonderful teacher who really galvanized me," she says.

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

Career

Franck studied art history at the University of Madrid and at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. After struggling through her thesis (on French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and the influence of cubism on sculpture), she said she realized she had no particular talent for writing, and turned to photography instead.^[5]

In , Franck's photography career started following trips to the Far East, having taken pictures with her cousin’s Leica camera.

Returning to France in , now possessing a camera of her own, Franck became an assistant to photographers Eliot Elisofon and Gjon Mili at Time-Life. By she was a busy freelance photographer for magazines such as Vogue,Life and Sports Illustrated, and the official photographer of the Théâtre du Soleil (a position she held for 48 years).^[6] From to she worked in Paris at the Agence Vu photo agency, and in she co-founded the Viva agency.^[2]

In , Franck connected the Magnum Photos cooperative agency as a "nominee", and in she became a full member.

She was one of a very small number of women to be accepted into the agency.

In , she completed a project for the now-defunct French Ministry of Women's Rights and in she began collaborating with the non-profit International Federation of Little Brothers of the Poor.

In , she first traveled to the Irish island of Tory where she documented the tiny Gaelic community living there. She also traveled to Tibet and Nepal, and with the help of Marilyn Silverstone photographed the education system of the Tibetan Tulkus monks.

In and she returned to Paris to document the work of theater director Robert Wilson who was staging La Fontaine's fables at the Comédie Française.^[7]

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

Franck continued active even after she was diagnosed with bone cancer in Her last exhibition was in October at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

The exhibit consisted of 62 portraits of artists "coming from somewhere else” poised from through This same year, there were collections of portraits shown at New York's Howard Greenberg Gallery and at the Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris.^[9]

Work

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

Martine Franck (2 April – 16 August ) was a British-Belgian documentary and portrait photographer. She was a member of Magnum Photos for over 32 years. Franck was the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson and co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.

Michael Pritchard, the Director-General of the Royal Photographic Society, observed: "Martine was able to work with her subjects and bring out their emotions and record their expressions on film, helping the viewer understand what she had seen in person.

Her images were always empathetic with her subject." In , Frank took one of her most iconic photos of bathers beside a pool in Le Brusc, Provence. By her account, she saw them from a distance and rushed to photograph the moment, all the while changing the roll of film in her camera.

She quickly closed the lens just at the right moment, when happened to be most intense.^[9]

She cited as influences the portraits of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, the serve of American photojournalist Dorothea Lange and American documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White.^[8] In , she told The New York Times that photography "suits my curiosity about people and human situations." ^[10]

She worked outside the studio, using a 35 mm Leica camera, and preferring black and pale film.^[2] The British Royal Photographic Society has described her function as "firmly rooted in the tradition of French humanist documentary photography."^[11]

Personal life

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

In , she met Henri Cartier-Bresson, thirty years her senior, when she was photographing Paris fashion shows for The New York Times. In , she told interviewer Charlie Rose "his opening line was, ‘Martine, I yearn to come and see your contact sheets.’" They married in , had one child, a daughter named Mélanie, and remained together until his death in ^[2]

Throughout her career Franck, who was sometimes described as a feminist, was uncomfortable being in the shadow of her eminent husband and wanted to be recognized for her own labor.

In , the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London planned to stage Franck's first solo exhibition: when she saw that the invitations included her husband's name and said he would be present at the launch, she cancelled the show. Franck once said that she insert her husband's career ahead of her own.

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

Franck was diagnosed with leukemia in , and died in Paris in at 74 years old.^[2]

Publications

• Martine Franck: Dun jour, l'autre.

  France: Seuil, ISBN&#;

• Tibetan Tulkus, images of continuity. London: Anna Maria Rossi & Fabio Rossi Publications, ISBN&#;
• Tory Island Images.
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  Wolfhound Press, ISBN&#;

• Martine Franck Photographe, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris-Musées/Adam Biro, ISBN&#;
• Fables de la Fontaine (production by Robert Wilson), Actes Sud. Paris,
• Martine Franck: One Day to the Next.

  Aperture, ISBN&#;

• Martine Franck. Louis Baring. London: Phaidon, ISBN&#;
• Martine Franck: Photo Poche. France: Actes Sud, ISBN&#;
• Women/Femmes, Steidl, ISBN&#;
• Venus d'ailleurs, Actes Sud,

Exhibitions

• La vie et la mort,Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, ^{[citation needed]}
• Martine Franck Photographe,Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, ^{[citation needed]}
• Les Rencontres, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, ^{[citation needed]}

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