Today in the Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina" exhibition opens Sabine Weiss "A half-century photography"

Today, 10 April, the Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina" (Kuznetsky Bridge, 21 /5, Entrance № 8) exhibition opens Sabine Weiss "A half-century photography." It is part of the Moscow International Festival "Biennale-2010».

Sabine Weiss since childhood in photography. She always liked to watch and admire. She had decided very early that the means of its expression is photography.

After several years of training in Geneva, she moved to Paris and works with the most famous European and American magazines, making their stories and advertising , photographing celebrities and the fashion world.

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On his arrival in Paris, she takes the French capital 1950, that special post-war popular Paris . It was "magic time, when the gypsy horses rear up on vacant lots near the Porte de Vanves", - she said. Like her friends, Doisneau and Ronis, Sabine Weiss "looks heart" and tries to convey his sense of fascination with everyday life.

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Being naturally inquisitive, Sabine Weiss travels around the world: United States (she marries in 1950, an American painter of the Southern Weiss), Europe, Egypt, India, Morocco, Burma ... It never ceases to cling to people: children, single women, the poor - all those who sometimes appears to be relegated to the margins of society.

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Following his delicate and sensitive impulse, she takes fleeting meeting, imperceptible gestures, silent pause and she grasps a difficult candlelight, street lamps, car headlights.

For Sabine Weiss picture "related to the instant, with a charming elusive moment that you want to catch at the same time giving it a shape, this moment of time and space, in which the completeness and simplicity are the same ».

exhibition will run until May 10, 2010.

Source: ekaterina-fondation.ru