Tag: female photographers
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Ballet dancer Sunny Lorinczi (Solarization), Montevideo, 1946
Sunny Lorinczi was born in Uruguay in 1930 to a family of Hungarian origin. A ballet dancer from her early teenage years, she goes on to interpret the starring roles of classical ballet’s repertoire, such as “Giselle”, throughout South America. She becomes the Montevideo’s Sodre’s prima ballerina in 1951, under the direction of Vaclav Veltchek.…
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Aitana Alberti, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1947
Aitana Alberti, born in 1941 in Buenos Aires, is the daughter of Rafael Alberti and María Teresa León. Here she was photographed by the Mandellos during a summer holiday in Punta del Este, in the family’s vacation home “La Gallarda”. Aitana Alberti is an anthropologist and poet who lives in Cuba where she presides the…
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Vaclav Veltchek (photomontage), 1948
Vaclav Veltchek was a Czech dancer and ballet choreographer who emigrated to Brazil in 1939. He there founded and directed the modern ballet troupe Conjunto Coreográfico Brasileño, with which he visited Montevideo in 1948, and was guest choreographer for several ballet companies, such as the troupe of Montevideo’s Sodre Theatre. He was a precursor of…
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Light (black photogram), 1948/49 (Jeanne and Arno Mandello)
A photogram is an image produced without a camera, whereby three-dimensional objects are placed on photosensitive paper and exposed to light. The result is a highly differentiated shadow picture.
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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 Maria Portinari (Solarization)
Maria Martinelli Portinari was the wife of Brazilian neo-realist painter Candido Portinari. As a communist, he had to flee Brazil in 1948. The couple settled in Uruguay for several years, Maria’s home country.
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Untitled photogram
A photogram is an image produced without a camera, whereby three-dimensional objects are placed on photosensitive paper and exposed to light. The result is a highly differentiated shadow picture.
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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…