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 […]
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The photographer Sabine Weiss, who has died aged 97, established her considerable reputation within the French “humanist” school of black-and-white photography, which aimed to capture the universal human experience through images of everyday street life. Images such as that of a horse kicking up its heels, tethered on snowy wasteland […]