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Martine Franck: Images, Press and Feminist Struggles
Mostly unpublished photographs by Martine Franck of 1970s feminist movements, mainly in Paris: protests and the feminist press. Curated by Angèle Ferrere.
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On Fifth Avenue in 1971, a young woman in a striped top holds a copy of Le Torchon brûle over her head, the paper of the French women's movement, next to a sign reading "We are with you French women's liberation". Martine Franck took that picture. She also photographed the paper being made: two women at a Paris table in April 1971, working on its pages.
Franck (1938-2012) photographed the Mouvement de libération des femmes through the 1970s, mostly in Paris, and many of these prints have never been shown, or appeared only in the feminist press of the day. That press is half the subject: the papers where activists tested ideas and passed their own images around.
Franck co-founded this foundation, and arts-in-the-city put it as hanging the activist she was "in the building she wanted". You'll find it in the Tube gallery, and the same ticket (€10, €6 reduced, free under 18) covers the Susan Meiselas show. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 7pm.
Look for
Le Torchon brûle on Fifth Avenue
Look for the woman in a striped top holding the French feminist paper aloft at New York's 1971 Women's March for Equality, beside a sign addressed to French women's liberation.
Making Le Torchon brûle
Two women bend over a Paris table in April 1971, with a sheet bearing the paper's hand-lettered title spread out between them.
Carole Roussopoulos at the Lip march
In Besançon in 1973, Roussopoulos aims a portable video camera at the march while the person beside her holds an umbrella over it.
May Day, Paris, 1977
A young woman leans on a hand-painted placard demanding free abortion, "avortement libre et gratuit", with another sign behind her declaring that women's struggles change all of life.
The locomotive driver
From the 1991 series Des métiers et des femmes, Nadine Ferreira leans out of an SNCF locomotive at the Saint-Pierre-des-Corps marshalling yard.
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- Martine Franck: Images, Press and Feminist StrugglesCourtesy of Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Kurt Schwitters. Le chaos-monde, 1918-1948Courtesy of Musée national Picasso-Paris
- Guillermo Kuitca, ChapelleCourtesy of Musée national Picasso-Paris
- Statue de la Liberté : reportage photographique à la fin du XIXe siècle© Musée des Arts et Métiers-Cnam/photo Sylvain Pelly
- Fondation Henri Cartier-BressonVVVCFFrance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Musée national Picasso-ParisFrançois de Dijon, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Musée des Arts et MétiersMarianne Casamance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Musée Cognacq-JayCVB / Wikimedia Commons
- Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries LafayettePhilouSunshine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0