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Philatelic document - Sabine Weiss - 1924-2021

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5.41

Description

Sabine Weiss is one of the leading exponents of the French humanist photography humanist photography. Born in Switzerland in 1924, she started out as an apprentice photographer in Geneva, before becoming assistant to photographer Willy Maywald in Willy Maywald in Paris. In 1950, she married American painter Hugh Weiss and began her career as a freelance independent photographer. In the creative and exuberant atmosphere of their Parisian home-atelier, she worked tirelessly she worked tirelessly to create a unique and unique and prolific body of photographic work. In 1952, she joined the Rapho agency. It was at this of her career that she took this self-portrait dated 1953. Dressed in a serious but elegant outfit, she stares the lens with a determined air, holding her Rolleiflex in both asserting her status as a professional photographer professional photographer at the age of 28. In an unconventional unconventional, she chose to pose on location, in front of a graffiti-covered wall. This date marks the beginning of an intense period of work decades. Her personal work was soon exhibited in the United States, and she went on to work for the for the international illustrated press, with a succession of fashion, advertising, celebrity portraits and social and social subjects. At the end of the 1970s, recognition of her work recognition of her work inspired her to return to black-and-white a more intimate voice, focused on solitude, beliefs and the pensive moments moments of existence. In the last ten years of her life of her life and donated her archives to the Photo Élysée her archives to the Photo Élysée museum in Lausanne. Until her last breath, on December 28, 2021, she will have she passionately approached all areas of photography photography as a challenge, a pretext for encounters and and travels, a way of life and a mode of self-expression of self-expression, in constant sympathy with others.

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Timbre : Mise en page Valérie Besser d’après photo © Sabine Weiss/Photo Elysée, Lausanne Document philatélique : Mise en page Valérie Besser d’après photos © Sabine Weiss/Photo Elysée, Lausanne Texte : Virginie Chardin

Information

Commercialisation start date

July 22, 2024

Commercialisation end date

July 31, 2025

Adherence type

None

Printing technique

Offset

Number per sheet

1

Permanent value

No

Face value

-

Philatelic charter family

group.

Official release date

July 22, 2024

Stamp format

210 x 297 mm

author

BESSER Valérie

Product number

2124552