Sabine Weiss bears witness for the first time

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New York, 1955 Sabine Weiss

Paris, 1955 Sabine Weiss

Olhao, Algarve, Portugal, 1954 Sabine Weiss

New York, 1962 Sabine Weiss

Rouen,1963 (Photo Studio Fllebé) Sabine Weiss (Studio Fllebé)

Chip shop, Paris, 1952 Sabien Weiss

Greece, 1960 Sabine Weiss

Wedding, Paris,1953 Sabine Weiss

Porte de Saint-Cloud, Paris, 1950 Sabine Weiss

Young boy in northern France, 1955 Sabine Weiss

Paris,1953 Sabine Weiss

Françoise Sagan, Paris, 1954 Sabine Weiss

Sabine and Hugh Weiss, Zurich, 1951 Sabine Weiss

Young beggar, Toledo, Spain, 1954 Sabien Weiss

Sabine Weiss at Vogue, Paris, 1955 Sabeine Weiss

Dior fashion house, avenue Montaigne, 1958 Sabine Weiss

Egyptian girl, 1983 Sabine Weiss

Rome, 1957 Sabine Weiss

Guadeloupe, 1990 Sabine Weiss

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Sabine Weiss has agreed to open up her archives. For the first time, an exhibition traces her life and work as a photographer. It can be seen in Switzerland until March.

The Bellpark museum in KriensExternal link (canton Lucerne) will be showing “some milestones” from the long career of Sabine Weiss, the last representative of the Humanist school, embodied by Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis and Edouard Boubat.

Members of the public can discover nearly 130 prints, as well as films and numerous period documents. The exhibition has already been shown in France, at the Château de Tours. It was designed by the Jeu de PaumeExternal link national art gallery in Paris, in cooperation with the city of Tours.

Images: Sabine Weiss, Text: Katy Romy, swissinfo.ch