Sabine Weiss. A Photographer’s Life
In the organizer's words:
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the French-Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss (1924-2021), f³ - freiraum für fotografie is showing a retrospective of her work for the first time in Germany.
Sabine Weiss is one of the most important representatives of French humanist photography of the 20th century. Her career spans more than seven decades. Humanist photography, which essentially combined the philosophy of the Enlightenment with social documentary practice, emerged after the Second World War. Photographers such as Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Brassaï were famous representatives. Whether reportage, illustrations, fashion, advertising, portraits of artists or personal works: Sabine Weiss saw all areas of photography as a challenge, as a pretext for encounters and travel, as a means of living and self-expression.
The exhibition Sabine Weiss. A Photographer's Life, which the author worked on until her death, tells of this lifelong passion and sheds light on the focal points of a body of work that evolves around the human condition. Using original prints, archive documents and films, she paints a portrait of a photographer who was driven by an insatiable curiosity about other people, whether in France, where she settled in 1946, in the USA or on her countless travels throughout Europe.
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On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the French-Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss (1924-2021), f³ - freiraum für fotografie is showing a retrospective of her work for the first time in Germany.
Sabine Weiss is one of the most important representatives of French humanist photography of the 20th century, with a career spanning more than seven decades. Humanist photography, which essentially combined the philosophy of the Enlightenment with social documentary practice, emerged after the Second World War. Photographers such as Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Brassaï were famous representatives. Whether reportage, illustrations, fashion, advertising, portraits of artists or personal works: Sabine Weiss saw all areas of photography as a challenge, as a pretext for encounters and travel, as a means of living and self-expression.
The exhibition Sabine Weiss. A Photographer's Life, which the author worked on until her death, tells of this lifelong passion and sheds light on the focal points of a body of work that develops around the human condition. Using original prints, archive documents and films, the exhibition paints a portrait of a photographer who was driven by an insatiable curiosity about other people, whether in France, where she settled in 1946, in the USA or on her countless travels throughout Europe.
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