Franco-Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss died on December 28 at the age of 97.
She passed away at her Paris home, her family and team announced. She was best known for her black and white photographs of streets, passers-by and children.
Sabine Weiss is considered the latest representative of the current of humanist photography, which consists of immortalizing scenes from everyday life. This passion for photography came to him from childhood. Born in 1924 in Saint-Gingolph (Switzerland), she moved to Paris in 1946, where she became the assistant to fashion photographer Willy Maywald.
She began by photographing the greatest personalities of the time: Jeanne Moreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Françoise Sagan … But it is her photos of strangers that really make her emerge.
In 1950, she was spotted by the first news agency, the Rapho agency, which also broadcast the work of Willy Ronis and Robert Doisneau. Sabine Weiss’ talents have thus been used in the fields of fashion, advertising and reporting. At the same time, Franco-Switzerland continued, until her death, her work on the daily life of Parisians.
His photos are now exhibited at the Center Georges Pompidou (Paris), MoMA (New York), and even at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan.