Tag: Florence Henri

  • Portrait of Florence Henri (Solarization), 1942

    Portrait of Florence Henri (Solarization), 1942

    Florence Henri, a German-French artist born in New York in 1893, studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and took up photography at the Bauhaus school in Dessau in 1927, taught by Lucia Moholy and László Moholy-Nagy. She then opened her own photography studio in Paris. Her experimental work was compared with the photography of…

  • About, Part 7: A New Artistic Identity

    About, Part 7: A New Artistic Identity

    Light (black photogram), 1948/49 (Jeanne and Arno Mandello) Jeanne’s personal artistic identity changed on arriving in Uruguay and became “arte foto-gráfica”[1]. She now expressed herself by creating compositions which seem to float outside of a physical space. In addition to her adopting a new country and new cultures, she began to explore a new, resolutely…