Sabine Weiss
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Gelatin silver prints, printed by Publimod, Paris
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Gelatin silver prints, printed by Publimod, Paris
Sabine Weiss, Portfolio Giacometti, Poussière sculptée
12 x 16 inches
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Gelatin silver prints, printed by Publimod, Paris
Sabine Weiss, Portfolio Giacometti, Poussière sculptée
12 x 16 inches
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Gelatin silver prints, printed by Publimod, Paris
Sabine Weiss, Portfolio Giacometti, Poussière sculptée
12 x 16 inches
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Gelatin silver prints, printed by Publimod, Paris
Sabine Weiss, Portfolio Giacometti, Poussière sculptée
12 x 16 inches
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Gelatin silver prints, printed by Publimod, Paris
Sabine Weiss, Portfolio Giacometti, Poussière sculptée
12 x 16 inches
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Gelatin silver prints, printed by Publimod, Paris
Sabine Weiss, Portfolio Giacometti, Poussière sculptée
Presentation
Sabine Weiss's work has continued to grow and expand since 1942. She takes on all genres without privileging any. Of course, children are one of her favorite subjects to photograph, but there are many more. She never places more importance on the anecdotal than on sensations themselves, "ones that capture the expression of feelings". She does not recoil at the label "humanist photographer", but she does believe that it is too narrow for her work. The only thing that has sparked her interest and nourished her throughout the years is painting. Unclassifiable and fiercely independent, Sabine Weiss is a fascinating subject.
Public collections
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musée National d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
Fondation Nationale des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France
Musée Nicéphore Nipece, Châlon sur Saône, France
Photothèque des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Galerie du Château d?Eau, Toulouse, France
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Allemagne
Musée d?Art Moderne, San Francisco, Californie, USA
Lehigh University Art Gallery, Pittsburg, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japon
Musée de l ?Élysée, Lausanne, Suisse
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
LAC, Saint Pierre de la Réunion
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Suisse
Reader?s Digest Collection
Musée « The Family of Man » de Steichen, Luxembourg
« la collection Transphotographique » Pozman
Press
Texts
Sabine Weiss is not a photographer.
In any case, Sabine Weiss is not a photographer whom we can easily class among French humanist photographers and then wash our hands, as if everything were said and done. And this is in no way a criticism of said school of photography. It's merely an observation, a statement of affairs, a report. Even when many of her Parisian photographs seem to belong wholeheartedly to that movement. And that is precisely the key: the mistake is seeing Sabine Weiss as a photographer of Paris. Or exclusively so. Weiss is never more herself than when she leaves France. Never more herself than when she lands in New York, Sicily, Portugal, Egypt. All right, in France she can be considered a photographer. But once we've crossed the national borders by even a few inches, it's a completely different story...
But then, if Sabine Weiss is not a photographer, what is she? Who is she?
Far from her roots, she becomes a director, a maker of films. In fact, I'd much prefer the term maker because her photos are precisely not directed or set up. They are not posed. Not even freeze frames. No, her photos are the beginning of a story. Or the middle. Or the end. And they are often a whole film. You enter one of her photographs as you would enter a cinema. You'll have to buy a ticket to see her photos. In fact, the best way to appreciate them is with others, in a dark room, feeling your neighbours reacting and vibrating at the sight of each of these moments that are at once dense and dramatic.
The first thing that comes to mind when watching the cinema of Sabine Weiss is Italian neo-realism: the Rossellini of Rome, Open City and de Sica's The Bicyle Thief. But after some consideration, I would lean more towards Jules Dassin, who was indeed the first to place his camera on the streets of New York in The Naked City. But for the quality of her black and white works, I most definitely associate Weiss's New York photos with that other film of Dassin's, namely Night and the City. Feel the intensity! And the light! Drama in its purest form. It's no surprise that Weiss also shot her pictures in New York in the thick of the 1950s.
Yes, I firmly believe that this is how we ought to reread Sabine Weiss's photographs now, as great moments of cinema. And in that regard, she is entirely alone in the history of French photography. Or for that matter in the history of photography, full stop. Her place is utterly unique.
Yes, Sabine Weiss is a great photographer.
Olivier Beer
Scriptwriter
Exhibitions
Sous le soleil de la vie
November 28 2020 - February 20 2021
Paris Photo 2019
Group show
7 - 10 November 2019
Photofairs | Shanghai 2019
Group show
21 - 22 September 2019
Les coups de coeur de l'équipe
Group show
June 20 - July 27 2019
Sélection de Noël
Group show
November 23 - December 22 2018
Paris Photo 2018
Group show
8 - 11 November 2018
La ville miroir
Fred Herzog
June 8 - July 28 2018
AIPAD 2018
Group show
5 - 8 April 2018
Paris Photo 2016
Group show
10 - 13 November 2016
Le monde de Sabine Weiss
May 18 - July 30 2016
Soon Art Fair
Group show
11 - 13 December 2015
PARIS PHOTO
Ernst Haas,
Sophal Neak,
Homer Sykes
12 - 15 November 2015
New York
Group show
March 20 - June 13 2015
Autoportraits
Group show
November 7 2014 - January 10 2015
News
Prix Women in Motion 2020
November 6, 2020
Une vie de photographe
June 18 - September 6 2020
Vincennes Images Festival
May 25, 2019
La vie
May 7 - July 4 2019
Lost, loose and love : foreign artists in Paris 1944 - 1968
November 21, 2018 - April 22 2019
Les villes, la rue, l'autre
November 9, 2018
Correspondances
November 9, 2018 - January 19 2019
Les voyages de Sabine Weiss
November 8, 2018 - January 12 2019
Les villes, la rue, l'autre
October 10, 2018
Les villes, la rue, l'autre
September 25, 2018
Les villes, la rue, l'autre
June 20 - October 15 2018
Sabine Weiss : une vie de photographies
June 15 - August 19 2018
Femmes et enfants d'abord
2 - 24 June 2018
Towards the Light
March 8 - June 30 2018
3 places, 3 exhibitions
February 3 - April 15 2018
Vagabondages
November 11, 2017 - February 10 2018
Un regard personnel
October 7, 2017 - January 26 2018
En Passant
June 17 - July 29 2017
Sabine Weiss: intimate memory
February 10 - April 29 2017