Sabine Weiss, whose arresting photographs of soiled-faced youngsters, food-stall distributors and Roma dancers captured the struggles, hopes and occasional times of humor on the streets of postwar France, died on Dec. 28 at her residence in Paris. She was 97 and thought of the previous member of the humanist university of images, whose ranks provided Robert Doisneau, Brassaï and Willy Ronis. Her assistant, Laure Augustins, confirmed the dying. When she began out, in the late 1940s, no just one identified as Ms. Weiss and her cohort “humanists” that term came later, when historians in the 1970s commenced to elevate their perform to canonical status. But they have been definitely a…