Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Le 18 ao?t 12 ? 17:55, Lluis Ripoll a ?crit : > Thank you Phiippe for share on the list Martine Franck has > traspassed, I love her pictures and her personality > > I've found this > http://polkamagazine.com/18/le-mur/martine-franck/865 > > I have her book, the work at "Les Petits fr?res", the title is "De > temps en temps", I highly recomend this book printed in 1988, I'm > sorry no ISBN for identification, was published by IDEODIS CREATION, > and the printer was JEAN GENOUD, Lausanne, SWITZELAND, the foreword > by Claude Roy is very nice, the first words are: > > "Les vieilles gens, le temps les tire par-dedans, les fripant les > froissant, les rouillant, les usant, les romgeant, les d?formant, > les fatigant (ah! fatigue, fatigue, que le bout du chemin souvent > est ext?nuant!). > > Mais ? l'int?rieur des vieilles gens, il y a un ?tre jeune qui > s'agite et demande sortir. Il sait bien que ce n'est pas convenable. > Mais il voudrait sortir." > > Quick and dirty translation Old people, time sucks them from inside, crumpling them, creasing them, rusting them, wearing them out, gnawing at them, tiring them - ah tiredness, fatigue, how excruciating the end of the path is. > in another paragraphe he says: > > "Elle a photographi? les sentiments... (sic) .... L'extr?mit? de > l'art d'un artiste, c'est de rendre visible l'invisible, ou ce qui > est invisible pour un regard distrait ou trop mal tourn? vers > soi. ..." > She photographed sentiments (sic) The end* of an artist's art is to make the invisible visible, or what is invisible to the distrait onlooker, or to the inaptly self-centered. * read "where it stops", not "the aim" > and at the end: > > "Elle fait mentir la Rochefoucauld: elle regarde en face le temps > qui d?vore tout, le temps qui d?vore le temps" > She gives La Rochefoucauld the lie: she looks at time that devours everyting, straight in the eye, time that devours time. > Marty it would be a great pleasure meet she in person! > > I'm sorry, I'm unable to translate > > Amiti?s > Lluis > > > > El 18/08/2012, a las 12:21, philippe.amard escribi?: > >> Another Leica user and HCB memory bearer gone. >> >> http://www.ozap.com/actu/la-photographe-de-presse-martine-franck-epouse-de-cartier-bresson-est-decedee/442519 >> >> http://www.mmail.com.my/story/celebrated-magnum-photographer-martine-franck-dies-27133 >> >> Philippe >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information