I think of Martine in the midst of other people, charming us and making us feel welcome—for so often we were her guests, and never has a more gracious hostess…
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One of the pleasures of visiting Paris was the possibility that Martine would be around and not off on one of her far-away photographic journeys. Over so many years, Martine…
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I will remember from Martine her gentleness, her generosity and her ability to marvel, like a night of November 2005 when she was staring with admiration at her tightrope walker…
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You combined honesty and kindness, a child-like ability of wonder, and the wisdom of a great age, and your photos mirror these two extremities of life, childhood and old age,…
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Martine Franck a great elegant and shy lady are the words most often used in the many tributes written about her and yet. I remember a summer day…
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I admire greatly not only her pictures with that slow moving elegant composition, which was I believe uniquely hers. Also, of course, even at a distance, I know she was…
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"I really like Avigdor Arikha's painting, and he is a friend. He asked me once to photograph him in his studio. I am fascinated by duplication. I realize that when…
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The Mexican photographer Héctor García died this week. Born in Mexico City in 1923, García studied under Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa. Beginning in 1945, he worked as a…
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As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained…
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Let's make the most of the death of Sipa to praise his sense of timing. ounce more a wink at history as a cliché of cyclops, giant…
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