Tag: Jewish exiles in Uruguay
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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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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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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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Photograph of Eduardo Yepes sculpture of philosopher, writer and academic Carlos Vaz Ferreira
Published in “Entregas de la Licorne”, no. 11, 1958, Montevideo
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About, Part 5: Uruguay, Haven of Refuge
Customs Building Montevideo, approx. 1950 They could hardly have come to a better place: Uruguay has a long history of European immigration and was, at this time already, a relatively stable country with an advanced political and educational system. The country’s immigration laws have traditionally been very generous, allowing “every honest foreigner apt to work”[1]…