Martine Franck: One Day To The Next

by John Berger, Martine Franck (Photographer)

Martine One Day to the Next includes more than 100 images that capture singular visual moments with elegance and wit. Presented here is a selection of this highly regarded photographer's favorite images from the last 30 years, covering subject matter from the inquisitiveness of childhood to the quirks of old age, from strange and rugged landscapes to the rhythms of crowds. Whether photographing artists and writers such as Michel Foucault and Marc Chagall, or Tibetan Buddhist refugees in India and Nepal, Franck sees photography as “a frontier, a barrier of sorts that one is constantly breaking down so as to get closer to the subject.”

Genres: Photography

168 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 1999

About the author

John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text.

Later he was self exiled to continental Europe, living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. Since then, his production has increased considerably, including a variety of genres, from novel to social essay, or poetry. One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss,

Another of his most remarkable works has been the trilogy titled Into Their Labours, that includes the books Pig Earth (1979), Once In Europa (1983) Lilac And Flag (1990). With those books, Berger makes a meditation about the way of the peasant, that changes one poverty for another in the city. This theme is also observed in his novel King, but there his focus is more in the rural diaspora and the bitter side of the urban way of life.

Reviews

[The Blue Cave · Rating 5 out of 5]

The foreword - a fax conversation between John Berger and Martine Franck - itself is worth 5 stars. It made me see her images in a new way. Perhaps that's what makes Berger a singular art critic and a master of seeing. I also like how Cartier-Bresson was only referred to once as Henri, and Martine's portrait of him is one of my favourite images from the book. I'm intrigued to see more of her landscape work on Tory Island.

[Mips · Rating 4 out of 5]

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