Tag: Jewish women photographers
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Rafael Alberti, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1947
Spanish poet Rafael Alberti (1902-1999) was a member of the so-called Spanish writers’ “Generation 27” and one of the literary voices of the left-wing Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. He left Spain after Franco’s victory and, after a spell in Paris, went into exile in Argentina with his wife María Teresa León. He stayed…
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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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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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