Thread by @dean_frey

#RIP Sabine Weiss
"All the pictures I take are entirely instant. What I like is to make an instant picture. Even if there are no people, I like the click, click, click. I never wait."
My favourite shot of Sabine Weiss, by Xavier de Fenoyl, 2014

Sabine Weiss
Champs-Élysées de Nuit, Hiver 1958
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Sabine Weiss
At Dusk, Venice, n.d. (1944/54)
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Sabine Weiss
Felix Labisse, French Artist, and Cat, n.d. (1944/54)
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Just the other day I was listening to this Michel Legrand album from 1958, with a wonderful cover photo by Sabine Weiss. Weiss was 34 & Legrand was 26.
A fine soundtrack for this #RIP thread for a great photographer.

Here's another LP with a Sabine Weiss cover: a great portrait of Arthur Rubinstein on 1957 RCA Victor LP that I know well.
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And isn't this Sabine Weiss portrait of Charlie Chaplin special?
Charlie Chaplin dirige sa musique du film Un Roi À New-York. Again from 1957.
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Her self-portrait from the 1940s. Weiss died yesterday, at 97.

Sabine Weiss was a friend of Alberto Giacometti, & photographed him in his studio many times. This shot is from 1954.

Judith Wilkinson tells this funny story about Sabine Weiss & Giacometti.
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The photographer Frank Horvat was a close friend of Sabine Weiss & her husband, Hugh Weiss, the American painter. Hugh died in 2007, & Sabine has just died at 97. #RIP
This Horvat shot of the Weisses is from Paris, in October 2006.
Stay well, Frank!

More Sabine Weiss album covers:
Yves Montand, 1959
Frankie Lane, 1966
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Half the battle in portrait photography is putting the subject at ease. I've seldom seen Callas as relaxed as she is in this Sabine Weiss portrait, for a 1965 album.

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Sabine Weiss
Paris, 1957
The perfect place to take photographs: Paris.

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Paris, 1949
Weiss takes one of the oldest photography clichés of them all - the blind accordionist - & adds fresh human interest.

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Photographer in London, 1954
From the Golden Age of fog photography. This is Trafalgar Square, I believe.

Sabine Weiss's portrait of Victor Vasarely, 1953
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A perfect portrait by Sabine Weiss of Françoise Sagan, from 1954
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Niki de Saint Phalle by Sabine Weiss, 1958
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Another great photo of Charlie Chaplin from the same shoot as the LP cover earlier in this Sabine Weiss #RIP thread.

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Her shot of Samuel Beckett, Paris, 1961.
Beckett was a great subject; he almost always took a good photo. This one is outstanding.

Eugene Ionesco by Sabine Weiss, 1960
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André Breton in his studio, rue Fontaine, Paris, 1956
Weiss is working here in the same "environmental portrait" genre as Arnold Newman, at around the same time. Both, I think, were influenced by earlier photographers such as August Sander & Paul Strand.

Robert Doisneau by Sabine Weiss, 1986
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