Galerie Hilaneh von Kories - Sabine Weiss: Un regard personnel


Sabine Weiss:Sabine Weiss Vita→ Vita
Un regard personnel

October 07, 2017 to January 26, 2018
The exhibition will be extended to February 16, 2018

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Place de Breteuil, Paris 1950

From October 07, 2017 until January 26, 2018 Galerie Hilaneh von Kories will present selected works by the Parisian photographer Sabine Weiss. Without doubt the now 93-year-old is the Grande Dame of Humanistic Photography. For many decades she has created a complex lifework; yet at the same time she can still be considered a discovery in Germany.

The photographer is associated with the so-called “école humaniste” and so she belongs together with Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Édouard Boubat, Brassaï or Izis to the most well-known representatives of this photographic genre, who, with their “photographie humaniste”, have directed their interest on the everyday life of their contemporaries, especially the one on the streets of Paris and its suburbs. Through the refined sensitivity of the photographer the pictures open the view on the small things in life.

Sabine Weiss: Pennsylvania Station, New York, 1962
Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, Later Print
Pennsylvania Station, New York, 1962
Sabine Weiss: Enfants prenant de l‘eau á la fontaine, rue des Terres-au-Curé, Paris, 1954
Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, Later Print
Enfants prenant de l‘eau á la fontaine, rue des Terres-au-Curé, Paris, 1954
Sabine Weiss: Françoise Sagan chez elle lors de la sortie de son premier roman Bonjour tristesse, Paris, 1954
Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, Later Print
Françoise Sagan chez elle lors de la sortie de son premier roman Bonjour tristesse, Paris, 1954

At first glance the photographs seem unspectacular but they profit from the straight view on everyday life, work and leisure time of the persons portrayed. Just as important as the persons in the centre are the surroundings of the scene, so that besides many street motifs you can often see cafés or pubs, which are popular locations showing socializing and informality.

The selection presented by Galerie Hilaneh von Kories includes pictures taken in Paris and on trips to European countries and the USA. Besides street scenes you can see sensitively staged portraits of well-known artists and pictures of children, who Weiss loved to shoot while playing in the streets. Her deep interest in capturing the interplay of light and shadow can be seen in magnificently composed pictures of train and underground stations. The focus of the selection is on motifs from the 1950s and 1960s.

“I take pictures in order to preserve an image, which will be gone in the next moment: gestures, postures and objects, which are witnesses of our journey.”

Already at an early age she decided in favour of photography. After an apprenticeship in Atelier Boissonnas in Geneva she went to Paris as a 22-year-old young woman. Today she still lives and works there. She worked as photographer Willy Maywald’s assistant until she decided to work independently in 1950. Together with her husband, the American artist Hugh Weiss, she mixed with the artists‘ colony of post-war Paris. She established long-lasting contact to many artists, actors, musicians and writers, who were frequently portrayed by her.

Following a recommendation of Robert Doisneau Weiss became a member of Fotoagentur Rapho in 1952. She has worked for many international magazines such as New York Times Magazine, Life, Newsweek, Vogue, Point de vue, Paris Match, Esquire, Holiday. Her pictures were also published in the legendary exhibition “Family of Man”. Already in the 1950s she had her first exhibitions in the USA, for example in Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1954) and Minneapolis (Walker Art Center, 1954). In the last years exhibitions in European museums have emphasized her place in the history of photography and of public perception, for example in Kriens (Museum im Bellpark, 2016), Tours (Jeu de Paume-Château de Tours, 2016), Zürich (Photobastei, 2014), Aachen (Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, 2011), Paris (Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 2008). For the first time Sabine Weiss is presented in an individual exhibition in Berlin.

Sabine Weiss, who was born in the Valaisan border community Saint-Gingolph at Lake Geneva in 1924, became a French citizen in 1995.

Sabine Weiss: Amoureux, place de la République, Paris, 1954
Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, Later Print
Amoureux, place de la République, Paris, 1954
Sabine Weiss: Centre de la France, 1953
Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, Later Print
Centre de la France, 1953
Sabine Weiss: Enfants jouant, rue Edmond-Flamand, Paris, 1952
Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, Later Print
Enfants jouant, rue Edmond-Flamand, Paris, 1952
These publications are available in the gallery.

L‘oeil intime
Sabine Weiss
„Edition de la Martiniere, 2016“
Sabine Weiss
„L‘oeil intime, 2014“


More photos from this exhibition

Sabine Weiss: «Le Baron», Paris, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Open image gallery
Sabine Weiss: Place de Breteuil, Paris 1950
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Pennsylvania Station, New York, 1962
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Enfants prenant de l‘eau à la fontaine, rue des Terres-au-Curé, Paris, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: CV sous la pluie, Paris, 1957
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Françoise Sagan chez elle lors de la sortie de son premier roman Bonjour tristesse, Paris, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Amoureux, place de la République, Paris, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Centre de la France, 1953
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Enfants jouant, rue Edmond-Flamand, Paris, 1952
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Alberto Giacometti dans son atelier, 46, rue Hippolyte-Maindron, Paris, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: André Breton chez lui, 42, rue Fontaine, Paris 1956
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Bataille de coqs, Ile de la Réunion, 1992
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Café, Athènes, Grèce, 1958
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Ella Fitzgerald, Paris, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Enfant perdu dans un grand magasin, New York, États-Unis, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Enfant, Nazaré, Portugal, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Enfants, porte de Saint-Cloud, Paris, 1950
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Espagne, 1981
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Femme dans un hall, Phaldelphie,États-Unis, 1962 
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Garçon jouant, New York, États-Unis, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1949
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Homme transportant des vêtements, New York, Ètats-Unis, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 1952
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Je suis un cheval, Espagne, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Jeanne Moreau, Paris, pour Vogue, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Jeune mineur, Lens, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Karen Blixen, Danemark, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Monastère des chats sauteurs, Nga Phe Kyaung, Birmanie 1996
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Musée, New York, Ètats-Unis, 1962
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: New York, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Sortie de métro, Paris, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Vendeurs de pains, Athènes, Gèce, 1958
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print
Sabine Weiss: Vitrine, Paris, 1955
Gelatin Silver Print on Baryt, Later Print

More infos about this artist

Sabine Weiss: VitaOpen vita

Sabine Weiss:
Un regard personnel

October 07, 2017 to January 26, 2018
The exhibition will be extended to February 16, 2018

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Friday 02–07 pm
Sat, October 07, 2017 1 – 4 pm

Galerie Hilaneh von Kories
Belziger Straße 35
10823 Berlin
Fon: +49 (30) 787 13 65 0
mail@galeriehilanehvonkories.de
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