#gallerycorner Unsigned, but stamped by artist Dimensions in centimetres 18 and a half X 24 Unframed Good condition Shipping will be by international tracked delivery to anywhere worldwide Up for sale today is a lovely old fashioned silver gelatine, limited edition, numbered 28 of 30, handmade darkroom print by Martine Franck. Martine Franck was well known for her documentary-style photographs of important cultural figures such as the painter Marc Chagall, philosopher Michel Foucault and poet Seamus Heaney, and of remote or marginalized communities such as Tibetan Buddhist monks, elderly French people, and isolated Gaelic speakers. Michael Pritchard, the Director-General of the Royal Photographic Society, observed: "Martine was able to work with her subjects and bring out their emotions and record their expressions on film, helping the viewer understand what she had seen in person. Her images were always empathetic with her subject." In 1976, Frank took one of her most iconic photos of bathers beside a pool in Le Brusc, Provence. By her account, she saw them from a distance and rushed to photograph the moment, all the while changing the roll of film in her camera. She quickly closed the lens just at the right moment, when happened to be most intense.[9] She cited as influences the portraits of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, the work of American photojournalist Dorothea Lange and American documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White.[8] In 2010, she told The New York Times that photography "suits my curiosity about people and human situations." She worked outside the studio, using a 35 mm Leica camera, and preferring black and white film.[2] The British Royal Photographic Society has described her work as "firmly rooted in the tradition of French humanist documentary photography. The quality of the paper used really does truly bring out the best in her talent, (silver gelatine) producing a ice and clear, sharp, high quality image, strong tonal renditions and superb contrast. The photo has been taken great care of and remains in good general overall condtion to this day, but the photographers name stamp, has some mild fading to it developed over time, but still more than legible, all bar the K at the end that came out a too underinked, but no prizes for guessing the name of the photographer's surname as its quite obviously "Franck".