Tag: Arno Mandello
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View of the Port and the Cerro, Montevideo
Collection of 29 postcards photographed by Jeanne (and Arno?) Mandello, published by “Lettres de France Ltda.”, Montevideo, approx. 1950. The original postcards are held in the National Library of Uruguay.
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“Exposición de fotografías de Mandello”, Gallery Amigos del Arte, Montevideo, 1950
Letter from Jeanne and Arno Mandello to Julio Payró, 13 July 1950, © The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (990020)
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Portrait of Violeta López Lomba (Solarization), Montevideo, approx. 1952 (Jeanne and Arno Mandello)
Violeta López Lomba (1925-1968) was a Uruguayan ballet dancer, and founder and director of the Sodre Theatre’s Dance School in Montevideo.
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Cine Central, Montevideo, by Uruguayan architect Rafael Lorente Escudero
At the end of the 1940s, Uruguayan architect Rafael Lorente Escudero, a friend of the Mandellos, designed a modernist cinema, apartment and shop complex in the centre of Montevideo, which was completed in 1953. The two cinemas, the Plaza and the Central, much beloved for decades by the Montevideans, symbolize the golden age of modern…