The ambitious aim of this volume is to bring out the extraordinary contribution of Martine Franck, a leading woman in the field over the last thirty years of the last century.

Besides paying homage to her best-known frames devoted to childhood, old age and the theatre, some of which have become icons, it opens up whole parts of her production that had remained in the shadows, centred on the representation of labour, of feminist movements and of consumer society. The synthesis reveals to a wide public an artist of sincere humanist spirit.