Tag: Jewish exiles in South America
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Tailflower (Solarization), Montevideo, 1943
A solarisation is an image recorded on a negative or on a photographic print which is wholly or partially reversed in tone so that dark areas then appear as light or light areas as dark. This effect is achieved by a brief exposure to bright light during development. Around 1930 the technique was rediscovered and…
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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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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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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.