Full Description
"I do not believe you can be a good photographer if you aren't curious about others" — Martine Franck
This book was conceived to shed light on the significant visual contribution made to photography by Martine Franck (Anverra, 1938 - Paris, 2012), an influential woman photographer active during the final third of the 20th-century. Celebrating her most renowned images of childhood, old age and theatre, many of which have become iconic, this book also offers a glimpse into swathes of her work depicting labour, the women's liberation movement and consumer society, which have seldom been displayed before now.
This new retrospective brings to a wider audience this truly humanistic artist, who engaged so deeply with her times, and for whom the camera was the privileged medium for Looking at Others.
Contents
7 Martine Franck
Looking at Others
Clément Chéroux
9 A Knowing Look
Martine Franck and the Women's Movement
Clara Bouveresse
15 Martine Franck's Photography of Old Age
Shirley Jordan
25 Vocation (Preambule)
33 The Stages of Life
34 Childhood
44 Initiation
52 Old Age
63 Trades
64 Labour
74 Toilers of the Sea
82 Public Figures
97 Political Subjects
98 Demonstrations
116 Église Saint-Bernard
122 A Critique of Consumerism
131 Feminist Struggles
132 Figureheads
138 Five Activist Projects
152 Collective Actions
159 Spaces of Representation
160 Looking at Art
168 On Stage
176 Body Writing
185 Thinking Landscapes (Conclusion)
195 Martine Franck
Among Mature Trees
Clément Chéroux
Appendix
200 Biography
201 Books
202 Interviews
204 Writings
205 Solo Exhibitions
207 Quotations
