Martine Franck

Martine Franck ( born April 2, 1938 in Antwerp, † August 16, 2012 in Paris) was a Belgian photographer. She was a member of the famous photo agency Magnum Photos and co-founder of the Fondation Henri Cartier -Bresson.

Biography

Martine Franck spent her childhood in England and the USA. She studied from 1956 to 1957 History at the University of Madrid and from 1958 to 1962 at the École du Louvre in Paris.

Your first experience as a photographer, she made ​​in 1963 in the Far East. In 1964, she worked as a photo assistant in the laboratory of Life magazine in Paris. Franck began in 1965 to work freelance. In 1970, she went to the agency VU and founded in 1972, the agency Viva. She became an associate member in 1980 at Magnum Photos in 1983 and a full member.

Martine Franck was married since 1970 with the legendary photographer Henri Cartier -Bresson († 2004), one of the founders of Magnum Photos. You managed at the Fondation Henri Cartier -Bresson, among others, her husband's estate and encouraged other artists.

Franck's photographic work is mostly in black and white works, characterized by a subtle, surreal character (Le brusc, Southern France, 1976). She made portraits of, made reports and pointed her camera lens on landscape motifs, or looked for, in the tradition of Cartier -Bresson, the spontaneous snapshot with subtle humor.

Publications

• John Berger, Martine Franck: From day to day, from the English by Marion Kagerer, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88814-913-4