Tag: solarization
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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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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…
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Portrait of 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”, through South America. She becomes the Montevideo’s Sodre’s prima ballerina in 1951, under the direction of Vaclav Veltchek.…
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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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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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Portrait of Violeta López Lomba (Solarization), Montevideo, approx. 1952 (Jeanne and Arno Mandello)
Violeta López Lomba (1925-1968) was a Uruguayan ballet dancer, and founder and director of the Sodre Theatre’s Dance School in Montevideo.
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