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Sabine Weiss: A Century of Photography

Sabine Weiss: A Century of Photography

Parisian and New York street scenes, world events coverage, press and fashion photos, advertisements, portraits of artists: hardly a discipline seems to have eluded Sabine Weiss’s benevolent lens. Nearing 100, this last representative of French humanist photography, whose work is currently on view at Rencontres d’Arles festival, France, lifts the curtain on some of her darkroom secrets and shares her insights into photography today.

Rue des Terres au Curé, Paris, 1954 © Sabine Weiss In 1954 Sabine Weiss walked down a little street called Terres-au-Curé in the 13th Arrondissement in Paris. She was doing on a report on worker priests — those politically active Catholic priests who...

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