Remembering photographer Martine Franck (1938-2012)
Belgian photographer Martine Franck (1938-2012) was a member of Magnum Photos for over three decades, and continued to show her work as recently as a few months ago. As a freelance photographer, she shot celebrity portraits and documentary images for Time, Fortune and Vogue. Franck studied art history in her youth before pursuing photography through her own images, and is also remembered for her support for various photographic agencies and humanitarian foundations.
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Martine FranckCol de L’homme Mort, Alpes de Haute Provence
The Ethelyn Bros Photography Purchase Fund2000.111.1
She met Henri Cartier-Bresson at Magnum in 1966, and the two later married. Franck was a co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, which she began in 2002, two years prior to Cartier-Bresson’s death.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Martine’s Legs, 1968
The Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison Fund
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Read about Martine Franck from the photo editors at Time and The Guardian, and see more of her images, here.
Jen Dolen, Photography & New Media intern
So when Cartier-Bresson died did they show a picture of Cartier-Bresson’s legs by Martine Franck?