Photography Photo Elysée pays tribute to the versatility of photographer Sabine Weiss
The exhibition in honor of Sabine Weiss is on display at Photo Elysée until January 12, 2025.
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The French-Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss was best known for her fashion photographs, which appeared in Vogue.
Image: Keystone
The exhibition in honor of Sabine Weiss is on display at Photo Elysée until January 12, 2025.
Image: Keystone
The French-Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss was best known for her fashion photographs, which appeared in Vogue.
Image: Keystone
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Sabine Weiss (1924-2021), the Photo Elysée Museum is paying tribute to the French-Swiss photographer. The artist donated her entire archive to the Lausanne museum in 2017.
Weiss, who was born on July 23, 1924 in Saint-Gingolph VS on Lake Geneva, donated 200,000 negatives, 7,000 contact plates, around 2,000 slides, photographs and numerous other documents to the museum.
Around 100 works from this collection will be on display until January 12, 2025. They provide a representative insight into the versatility of Weiss, who worked as a street, studio, fashion and advertising photographer, portrait photographer and photo reporter for numerous international magazines such as Vogue.
Weiss, who died on December 28, 2021 at the age of 97, is one of the great names in European photography. She was one of the last representatives of "humanist" photography, a movement that emerged in France after the Second World War and is associated with artists such as Robert Doisneau and Brassaï. She settled in Paris in 1946 and became a naturalized French citizen in 1995.
After her arrival in the French capital, she worked for the fashion photographer Willy Maywald, then opened her own studio and remained associated with the Rapho agency for a long time.
Photo Elysée invited the French visual artist Nathalie Boutté to enter into a dialog with Weiss' works. Her works on paper, which are inspired by the photographer's pictures, accompany the works in the exhibition, which is a tribute to Weiss.
