A PHOTOGRAPHER you should know: Martine Franck
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- Martine Franck, the photographer behind Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Video Breakdown
00:00 Intro
01:13 The World of Martine Franck
03:10 A brief Note
04:44 Dramatism and Movement in Photography
06:05 Geometry in Photography
07:36 Conclusion
The Woman Behind Cartier-Bresson
by Tatiana Hopper
February 2023
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Behind her husband… great photographer!! Thank you!❤
Thank you!
Madame Franck was an admired photojournalist prior to the marriage ....
For a long time now, when I think of the remarkable Belgian photographer Martine Franck, the same words come to mind: rigour and elegance. Her favourite lens was the 35 mm, so that the space is more emphasised than in Cartier-Bresson's, who preferred to use the 50 mm. These two photographers had the same rigour and were part of the same movement, the French humanist photography, but each one had his own style. Thank you for dedicating a video to this great lady of photography.
Very true! I agree with your comment and it seems like elegance and rigour are also words I would agree with associating to Martine Franck’s work :)
Her pictures are so poetic and elegant, thanks for introducing me to such a talent!
Thank you so much for watching Lasse!
Agreed @chipmunkfreak.Check out a channel called BLACK AND WHITE PROFUSION for more inspiration on B&W photographers you wont be disappointed.
Excellent insight into an unkown talent. The other night, I couldn't go to sleep and I was browsing for photographs. I came across a name I had never heard before. A Belgian photographer called Harry Gruyaert. His work is mesmerising. Mostly in colour and mostly with a Leica M, a 50mm lens and the good old Kodachrome. It is a symphony of colour and drama. You should look him up, Tatiana if you already haven't done so. Thanks again.
Thank you for watching and yes Gruyaert is coming to the channel soon been on my list for a long time ✨ cheers!
@@TatianaHopperI really look forward to that, if only so that someone can finally show me how to pronounce Gruyaert!
You are very knowledgeable, interesting & creative! Thank you for all the magnificent videos!!!❤
Thank you!
Wonder-ful work!
Thanks for watching!
these photos look amazing in colors for sure
Thank you very much for the quality of your videos. It’s amazing to discover artists and I always want to know more about them after watching your videos❤
Thank you so much for watching and appreciate the kind words!
Thank you for sharing us such amazing story, I love this video, and you always inspired me on photography. Both of these photographers are my favorites.
I’m glad they are, amazing work they both have! Cheers for watching!
Thank you for introducing this episode, love the dancers, Moscow. Most compelling image I've seen, so far.
Thanks for watching!
The Moscow dancers done by Cornell Capa are also worth looking for.
I didn’t know about this! Thank you!
Cheers for watching!
Brilliant! I wasn't aware of Martine's work. She was quite talented! What a treat to be able to be surrounded by the theatre for so long. Wow! I loved the photo of the kids in the library.
Thank you for watching Christina, and yes she has an amazing body of work!
Wow although I never heard of Martine Franck before I must say her work is totally amazing and leaves me inspired, thank you Tatiana for bringing her to light and another great video!
Thank you so much Rich! Appreciate you for watching the video!
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Thank you and greetings 🙋🏻♂️
Thank you so much Claudio!
I wasn't familiar with her at first but I've seen this photo (4:54) and some of the others you posted! She was extremely talented; the way in which both Cartier-Bresson and herself played around with and elevated the idea of composition is awe inspiring.. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Martine's just great. I love Bresson, his photos are earthy and have a feel of chaos and jostling and life within his carefully chosen angles, but Martine's photos just give me a sense of people as part of some great ticking swiss-watch universe - people alive, with dreams and follies but all the same part of and in service of a wider plan. It's nothing intended I don't think - just an emotional reaction of my own provoked by the wide spaces she places people in, the exact moments they hit a certain point and the odd poise and elegance everyone - even pensioners - seem to have in her photos. Taken together they have that effect on me. I was lucky enough to see a beautiful signed print of hers in Cardiff Museum, the one of the bathers by the pool, as part of the David Hurn 'Swaps' collection. I hope she's due another hefty retrospective tome soon! Anyway, great video and thank you for bringing her to a wider eye.
I agree, I was pleasantly surprised by her work and I loved how "elegantly organised" her shots are. Thank you for sharing your insight Peter. Really appreciate!
Wow, fantastic. I did not know this information.
Glad you liked it
Bedankt
Thank you! ✨
Your videos have a certain coolness to them that makes me want to sit down in a wine bar and just listen. Thanks for all your research and production time.
Like a contemporary nighthawks scene ahah love it thanks for watching Jim!
Thanks so much again for introducing another great photographer I had no idea existed!
This Martine Franck has it all, doesn't she! Although her style is unique, I get the impression that she and C-B were somewhat like-minded in photography.
I think they might have been, which is great and I do believe she was a very versatile photographer!
very powerful images......
just 39 seconds in and that photograph of the child karting through the sheets on the washing line is sublime~
It really is!
Excellent. I never knew of her.
I often look at a photograph and determine if it is the photographer's vision or simply documentation of another's creative work such as in architecture or even in nature - a picture of a beautiful flower vs an image of a glowing backlit tulip surrounded in black. Some beautiful and interesting images here by Martine Franck - however, in one exception, I might attribute the creativity of others to the image of the geometric hedges. Conversely, the wonderful image of children's heads lining the spiral staircase I would attribute to Ms Franck. I would really appreciate further discussion on this Tatiana.
Great video, I’ve always thought she was vastly underrated.
So did I!
How wonderful! Her work is so beautiful.
It really is!
@@TatianaHopper I definitely have a stronger response to her work than I do HCB.
@@kkfox7822 maybe because his work is so popularised and has been seen and mentioned more often it comes harder to connect. At least that’s how I kinda felt myself :)
@@TatianaHopper I’d agree with that. I think his ‘playfulness’ doesn’t really appeal to me. I love how structured her eye is.
@@kkfox7822 Same! I love her geometry and elegance!
Thanks so much for this video! :) I didn't know how she takes beautiful photos :)
Thank you so much for watching Michal!
love this video T! thats what im going to try next time im out with the camera. thank you
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for a great video. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they were at home and the conversation was about anything artistic.
Thank you for watching Paul!
I’m constantly amazed by the work of great photographers that until watching videos like yours, I have never heard of. She is brilliant for sure. Someone else I just heard of if Phillip Lorca diCorcia. From Australia books are so expensive to import and on used market prices can be crazy
Will check his work thanks so much for watching and commenting Roger!
Agreed @rogerhyland .Check out a channel called BLACK AND WHITE PROFUSION for more inspiration on B&W photographers you wont be disappointed.
Thanks, another great episode here. This past couple of years; I've left my books on the shelf. This is probly the only show; that I really watch. It covers some artist, that be had great ideas. That sounds simple. Simples good though. I'm findinding that just pulling random elements together with some good technique's is a start. Keeping the subject dignified wow that important too. Like said in the previous show. Maybe the thing is to be empithetic with your subject. Try to help them; somehow. A lesson; that I've come to realize is very important.
Thank you so much Donald! 🙏🏻
It is obvious they are both wonderful photographers! I know I am being redundant, but another very good video.
They both are very good for sure!
I took my best pictures 2 pictures. the other day. On my crappiest camera! I've been trying to do this picture for a few years too. Best Cera is the one that you have with you!
I really want to hear your thoughts on photographers like Ralph Gibson, who are lot more conceptual in their approach. Seems like you mostly do documentary photographers on here. It's not bad at all but there's like plethora of photographers out there(like great fashion photographers as well) and I'd really love to hear your thoughts
Excellent #documentary about photographer Martine Franck. She was a fantastic photojournalist and documentary photographer, although Henri Cartier Bresson may have inspired Franck to improve her photography with advice or by watching him work. It was still Martine Franck who created the amazing photography you used on here. Nice work.
Absolutely! Thank you so much for watching!
Her photos are stunning. What books best represents her work do you think ?
Always liked the photo of HCB reading a paper next to the window of a moving train. M camera as a necklace ... must check .. assume it was she. Cornell Capa another. The work is consistently special ... and the ICP y(International Concerned Photographer). Cornell also with Henri Dauman lost premier contracts with LIFE (TIME/LIFE was not a magazine but Henry Luces Publication Empire. For remaining with the American Society of Magazine Photographers. Seemingly trite, but within the profession a falling out with any of his magazines (TIME/LIFE) pretty much removed one from the others ... meaning a majority or near majority of the photojournalist's market in the States. That result was a removal of sorts from the halls of the profession and the loss of pretty much the opportunity for the type of photograph, you are showing if one was not born with considerable wealth. I mean in a world venue. As in one false step. Often wondered how Davis Douglas Duncan managed?
Definitely NOT unknown. Martinne a force on her own. Member of Magnum. Check portfolio. Magnificent.
For sure and I mention that in the video but we have to contextualise this, in a more mainstream view or amongst younger generations there’s a lot of people that don’t necessarily know about Franck as she falls a bit under the limelight of Cartier-Bresson kind of like Helmut Newton and his wife.. cheers for watching Jason!
A Much better photographer than HCB to my liking ✌️
I really like her photography too!
Thanks for the introduction! It is kinda ironic though that you chose not to mention Martine Franck's name in the video title..
I felt the same way.
In the 1920s and 1930s, men were trained to work or run a business, while women were educated in a myriad of artistic skills. I think that perhaps this is the reason for the special sensitivity of women for any creative discipline. I think it's obvious that she had a huge influence on Henri, as Gerda did on Capa, and as many other women did. Today you can visit any gallery or museum, and for every man there is, you will see at least three women.
You are right! That for sure had some impact, thank you for sharing your insight and for watching!
@@TatianaHopperhis whole life long women had a big influence on HCB.
First was his mother who let him become an artist, as they were owner of a big industrial company.
As a young man at the Paris André Lhôte Art School he was the lover of Caresse Crossby an American Artist who introduced whim to the surrealist group of wealthy Americans in France "The lost generation". surrealist influence is present in many of his photographs.
His first wife, a Javanese dancer and star all over Asia, introduced him in Asian high society and so he became an Asian specialist photographer, also at Magnum. He had access to many Asian celebrities and so made the last picture of Gandhi minutes before his assassination.
Of course Martine Frank his second wife shared with him the love of geometrical compositions.
Not to forget his long time Magnum secretary Agnès Sire, who worked hard to the promotion of his pictures and became on side of Martine Frank the long time HCB foundation director.
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@@jean-claudemuller3199 thank you so much for your insight Jean-Claude!
The work Gerda Taro did in the fight against fascists in Spain is worth a look, particularly at this time. Very much Robert Capa's partner ... and visionary on how the profession worked as she represented him ... converting him to the "wealthy" Robert Capa persona(American or French as was most beneficial) to the negotiation. Was it editior of the Swiss Mag: Vu (Christian Vogel?) who saw him ... perhaps the remaining cracked Trotsky print ... when he was the only photographer in the room and could be the only maker of the photograph ... "and tell that young jewish kid Andre FRiedman with the dirty leather jacket to come see me." Of course , Capa was a spinner of tall tails ... but he did dedicate his book on the Spanish Civil War :" To Gerda who went to Spain to cover the war ... and stayed on." LIttle to close to home for anyone who lived in this racket.
i've heard of the word "magnum" but also thought it was some elite illuminati type of org, turns out it has a huge and quality archive of photography. thanks to your video i found out about that today. thank you!
and your video is great source of knowledge and inspiration. thank you!
you weren't wrong
Yeah I linked her page on magnum in the video's description its really helpful and you can discover a lot of amazing photographers!
@@TatianaHopper I've been finding the newer members and associates particularly inspiring lately.
@@dmitrybelyakovHmm, Magnum photographers always there, lurking in the crowd, at every great world event, watching, waiting... orchestrating... manipulating events all for the sake of a photo.... erk! Maybe you're right!
Was chosen, or likely suggested, by Robert Capa at a get together that later included Cartier -Bresson, George Rodger and maybe David Seymour (Chim) (William Vandervirt ... and his wife Rita was involed but wish the was more mention of her .. them ), As WW2 ended and the question was how to continue ... all had held on to their own rights ... or surely the originals would have been tossed by publishers ... and lost forever ... resale ... a Magnum was the largest bottle of Champagne usually for large celebrations. Everybody got loaded . Also a celebration in the hope fewer subjects would be dead bodies and crying children ... Check for David Seymour's photograph of the kid in his first new shoes in the new state of Israel.
A woman in the shadow of a man? No way… Thanks for the video!
I am looking at 30x40 framed picture of hers on my wall.
Amazing!
@@TatianaHopper It's of course the first one you've talked about in the video. Loved it ever since I first saw it many many years ago.
Alot of triangles, diagonal lines, circles.
That’s right!
I enjoy her work more than Cartier -Bressons though his are outstanding of course. Just my opinion.
Is that an FFA jacket you have on?
It is Peter!
@@TatianaHopper Cool! I am really enjoying your channel.
does anyone else think Bresson was vastly overrated?
Well... yes and no. I think he is as exactly as great as his contemporaries in photography make out. You look at many great photographers and a lot of them describe how it was a Bresson book that sparked them. However been at the forefront of modern photogrpahy, an international jet-setting figure, a co-founder of Magnum, a rich sophisticated Frenchman with a lot of artistic and influential friends... all this combines to create the aura of something of a legendary figure and his is a name that is easy to remember and bandy about, that became representative of the photography world as a whole. Were there other photographers just as good and not as well known? Sure. Koudelka for me is even greater than Bresson. But Bresson really did go all the way with photography. There wasn't anything lazy about him. He was constantly exploring, always ready to help new photographers and just wandered, shooting and wearing out innumerable pairs of shoes. A lot of photographers describe arriving to shoot something and finding him there first. So I wouldn't say he's over-rated, I think he earned his place, but I would say he's over emphasised.
You described it very well Peter I agree its a yes and no from me too!
Less talk, more photos.