Sabine Weiss "la vie"

Opening Saturday, May 4th, 7pm - 9.30pm 

Exhibition ends July 4th, 2019 

Opening hours: Tu. - Fr. 4 – 7pm, Sa. 11am – 3pm  

During Internationale Photoszene Köln: 

Fr., May 10th 4pm – 9pm 

Sa., May 11th 11am - 9pm 

Su., May 12th 11am - 6pm  

Guided Tour with: 

- Sabine Weiss + book signing  Sa., May 11th, 3pm - 5.30pm 

- Galerist Burkhard Arnold Su., May 12th, 2pm and 4pm  

The  great French photographer Sabine Weiss is considered the grande dame of  humanistic photography and has been compiling a life's work in over  seven decades, centering on photographs from Paris. She lives there  since 1946.  

 As a trained portraitist, she has not only created timeless character  studies of celebrities, but she has also repeatedly photographed people  on the street in random situations. She is a brilliant storyteller, her  photographs live from a precise observation and multi-layered  atmospheric portrayal of everyday life. The fine sensorium of the  photographer opens the view of the little things in life. Weiss shows  the everyday life, the work, but also the leisure time of the  photographed persons.  As early as 1956, Robert d'Hooghe  introduced the photographer to the LFI as a "master of the Leica": "And  Paris was once again beginning to exert its old fascination for the  youth of the world. Among those who met in Paris was a young girl from  Switzerland. She was just twenty years old, had a solid apprenticeship  in a Swiss photography studio and life ahead of her. Soon one knew  'Sabine' in the circles of the young poets, painters and musicians  between Montparnasse, St. Germain-des-Près and Montmartre, who were busy  in unending debates to unravel the rotten world and reassemble it. When  she became involved in the discussion, she never forgot to emphasize  that she was a photographer, not an "artist." But she was not shy at  all. She found that her friends developed excellent art theories, but  did not understand them. By "seeing" Sabine Weiss understood: to be  moved by the visually apprehensible impressions of the environment and  by the contexts that are implied in it."  The text describes  very impressively the ability of photographic vision by Sabine Weiss.  Because that is indeed exceptionally precise and has preserved a sense  of time that has a lasting effect to this day."  (Ulrich Rüter in lfi-online.de 16.04.2018)