Sabine Weiss captured thousands of faces, smiles, and gestures; she immortalized a working-class Paris that has now vanished. She covered collections by the greatest fashion designers for Vogue and several other prestigious fashion magazines. She also traveled the world, always in search of “emotions.”
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, her lens focused on those on the margins — the people we often choose not to see: beggars, the elderly, Roman communities… The result is a monumental, eclectic, and deeply human body of work. A photographic journey always turned toward others, bearing witness to a profound love of life. Sabine Weiss was the last representative of the French humanist school of post-war photography, alongside the likes of Robert Doisneau, Brassaï, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Her work reflects a century of humanism.