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Publisher Note

The Poetry of the Instant delves into Weiss’s archive, presenting a selection of over 200 of her photographs including reportages, portraits (of Brigitte Bardot, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Niki de Saint Phalle, André Breton, Kees van Dongen, Robert Rauschenberg and Alberto Giacometti, among others) and fashion shoots for top magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, Life, Time, Newsweek, Vogue, Paris Match and Esquire.
In an essay accompanied by illustrations from historical documents and magazines, curator Virginie Chardin chronicles Weiss’s life and career.
Curator and art director Denis Curti also contributes an essay, analyzing the relationship between the French humanist photographers that were Weiss’ contemporaries (Doisneau, Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson) and Italian neorealism, as expressed in Weiss’ oeuvre.

Published at the occasion of the exhibition 2022 at Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice (Italy)

Sabine Weiss (1924 – 2021) was a Swiss-French photographer active in the French humanist photography  movement. She was born in Switzerland and became a naturalised French citizen in 1995. Sabine Weiss lived and worked for more than 70 years at her home in Paris, which today houses the archive of her entire body of work.

Artist Monograph

Sabine Weiss

Sabine Weiss

— The Poetry of the Instant

edited by Virginie Chardin

Publisher
Release Place Venice, Italy
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2022
Credits
Artist: Sabine Weiss
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 979-1254630242
Work  
Topics Archive, Fashion
Language English, Italian
Format Hardcover with dust-jacket
Dimensions 23.2 × 28.4 cm
Pages 200