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Martine Franck: A Gaze on Her Times
60 signed original prints from the collection by Magnum photographer Martine Franck: children, portraits, Tory Island in Ireland, and intimate shots of her husband Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum's co-founder, disliked having his own picture taken. Here he is anyway: in Provence in 1976 and again in 1995, filming in America in 1970, beside Robert Doisneau in Paris in 1986, and in front of Sarah Moon's lens in 1994. The person behind the camera was Martine Franck, his wife and a full Magnum member from 1983.
The 60 prints are signed originals from the Kahitsukan's own collection, hung in four themes: children, portraits, Ireland, and Bresson and his friends. You go from Marc Chagall and Balthus at home to Tory Island, the Irish island Franck kept returning to through the 1990s. A man who dodged cameras now hangs in Gion, where the signs already beg you to stop photographing geiko.
The museum also showed Franck prints under this title in 2020-21. Tickets are 1,500 yen (students 1,300) and include the Rosanjin Kitaoji room in the basement. Closed 28 December to 4 January.
Look for
Sarah Moon photographing Cartier-Bresson
Paris, 1994: the fashion photographer Sarah Moon points her camera at the man who disliked being photographed, and Franck catches them both.
Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson, Paris 1986
Look for Robert Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson together in one frame, two street photographers photographed by a third.
The museum's founder in Bresson's studio
A 1997 picture in Cartier-Bresson's Paris studio shows him and Franck beside Yoshitomo Kajikawa, the collector who founded the Kahitsukan.
Chagall and Balthus at home
Marc Chagall at home in France in 1980, and Balthus at home in Switzerland in 1999.
Tory Island, 1993 to 1996
Several frames from the small Irish island Franck kept going back to, including its East Town in 1993.
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- Martine Franck: A Gaze on Her TimesMartine Franck, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Provence, 1995. Courtesy of Kahitsukan – Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
- Kyoto University Museums Feature 7: The University Is a Treasure Box, Handcraft GatheringCourtesy of Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
- Tradition Meets Today #7Courtesy of Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
- Kyoto Museum of Crafts and DesignAsturio Cantabrio / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK)Wiiii / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Hosomi MuseumAsturio Cantabrio / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kawai Kanjiro's HouseNicholas & Debra Jewell / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0