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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
"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…
"She loves sun, Shakespeare, beauty of beings and places, comedy, tragedy, Commedia Dell'Arte. She hates justice, stupidity, pretension. Who is she? You have certainly guessed; it is Ariane Mnouchkine. I've…
I first met Martine in 1965. I was working then as an assistant to Hugh Moffett, the editor-in-chief of Life magazine, in Paris. I remember the day when a charming…
From Martine Franck, I knew the photographs. For a week, I have been collecting stories from people who knew her, and I realize that her images draw a sincere self-portrait…