SABINE WEISS. Portrait of Anne-Marie Edvina, c. 1961. 6.5x9.5" gelatin silver print. Printed c. 1961. Artist stamps in blue and purple ink on print verso.

The first and only "Salon International du Portrait Photographique" was held April 28-May 24,1961 at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. For this major event, 30 well-known photographers were invited to photograph just one subject, the 21-year-old Anne-Marie Edvina, who was chosen for the "rare symmetry of her face," according to a New York Herald Tribune article reporting on this important exhibition. The photographic results were exhibited at the BN and were published in the New York Herald Tribune, Life International, the Journal de Seine et Oise, EPOCA, Europeo and many other publications. The photographers ranged from surrealists Man Ray and Maurice Tabard to fashion photographer William Klein to photojournalists, such as Robert Doisneau and Edouard Boubat.

Sabine Weiss (nee Weber) is a French photographer, born in Switzerland in 1924. She is one of the best representatives of the French humanist photography along with Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Edouard Boubat, and Izis.

At eighteen years old, she decided to become a photographer and left her small town, Saint-Gingolph, on her bicycle for the capital, Geneva. There, from 1942 to 1945, she learned and practiced photography under Frederic Boissonnas, a studio photographer. After obtaining her diploma, she opened her own studio in Geneva. But in 1946, Sabine decided to move to Paris and became the assistant of Willy Maywald, a famous fashion photographer. In 1949, she met Hugh Weiss, the American painter. In 1950, Sabine started her own career as an independent photographer and was hired in 1952 by Vogue as a photo reporter and fashion photographer until 1961. In the office of Vogue's director, Robert Doisneau discovered her photographs and offered a position as part of the Rapho agency. She started travelling the world for newspapers and magazines such as Time, Life, Newsweek, and Paris-Match.

However, to Sabine Weiss, her personal work has always been essential, representing a perfect balance between poetry and social observation. With her concerned eye, she has been depicting the everyday life, the people, and their emotions. In 1955, Edward Steichen chose three of her photographs to feature in the Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since then, her work has been exhibited widely and is part of major institutions such as the Art Institute, Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne; the Georges-Pompidou Center, Paris; the Maison europeenne de la photographie, Paris; and the Kunsthaus of Zurich, among others.

She currently lives in Paris, France.

Credit: http://stephendaitergallery.com/artists/sabine-weiss/

Very good. Scratches throughout print surface.