Until October 23rd, Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice pays tribute to Sabine Weiss with the exhibition Sabine Weiss. The Poetry of the Moment.
Who was Sabine Weiss
Sabine Weiss was born in Saint-Gingolph, in Switzerland, on July 23, 1924.
She became interested in photography from a young age, which became her preferred means of expression. At 21, in 1945, while living in Paris, she published her first report.
Starting in 1950, she began working at Rapho, the leading French press agency. Here, she had the opportunity to collaborate with Doisneau, Boubat, Brihat, Dieuzaide, Brandt, Ken Heyman, Izis, Kertész, Karsh, Lartigue, Ronis, Savitryed Elkoury, and Janine Niépce.
In the meantime, she dedicated herself to street photography, capturing scenes of everyday life in the neighborhoods of Paris.
She passed away in Paris on December 28, 2021, at the age of 97.
Today, she is recognized as one of the foremost representatives of French humanist photography alongside Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Edouard Boubat, Brassaï, and Izis.
The Exhibition
The Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice presents the largest retrospective ever held, the first in Italy, dedicated to the photographer.
Sabine Weiss. The Poetry of the Moment, curated by Virginie Chardin, features over 200 photographs.
The retrospective is promoted by the Venice Foundation, realized by Marsilio Arte in collaboration with the Berggruen Institute, produced by the Sabine Weiss studio in Paris and Laure Delloye-Augustins, with the support of Jeu de Paume and the International Festival Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles.
It should be noted that Sabine Weiss was the only female photographer in the post-war period to have experimented in all fields of photography: from reportage to portraits of artists, from fashion to street shots with particular attention to the faces of children, and numerous travels around the world.
The exhibition accurately retraces her life and the phases of her artistic research.
From photographic portraits of musicians, sculptors, and actors: Robert Rauschenberg, Françoise Sagan, Romy Schneider, Ella Fitzgerald, Simone Signoret, and Brigitte Bardot, Annette and Alberto Giacometti, to the narrative about America and New York where she arrived with her husband, the painter Hugh Weiss, in 1955.
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Here, street photography returns in the neighborhoods of Bronx, Harlem, Chinatown, and Ninth Avenue.
From the United States to the world, with memories of her travels in Portugal, India, Burma, Bulgaria, and Egypt.
That’s not all.
Sabine Weiss. The Poetry of the Moment also presents previously unseen works. This mainly includes the series shot during the winter between 1951 and 1952 in French asylums, in the Cher department.
The Swiss photographer was deeply convinced that photography had the task of representing the human condition and remained true to this truth until the end, leaving us with incredibly authentic shots.
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