Sabine Weiss Photographer. Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss who chronicled social change in her pictures for nearly eight decades has died aged 97 in her Paris home her. Photographer Sabine Weiss last figure of the French humanist school died Tuesday at her Parisian home.
A pioneer of what later became known. A living legend Weisss images from 1950s Paris speak of a postwar time when a feeling of hope and joie de vivre could be felt in the people populating the citys cafes squares streets and in all corners. After a three-year apprenticeship with Paul Boissonnas in Geneva she became the assistant to Willy Maywald a German photographer specializing in fashion and portraits in 1946.
Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss who chronicled social change in her pictures for nearly eight decades has died aged 97 in her Paris home her.
Weiss was the last. For over sixty years Sabine Weisss name has been synonymous with the seminal era of French Humanist photography. After a three-year apprenticeship with Paul Boissonnas in Geneva she became the assistant to Willy Maywald a German photographer specializing in fashion and portraits in 1946. 1 day agoDecember 29 2021.