Florence Henry (1893-1982), Honor David, Paris 1934.
Born in New York, she started as a pianist, then studied painting in Berlin, Munich, and Paris. 1927 she enrolled at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
There she took courses from Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy, and found an interest in photography. It was through Moholy-Nagy in particular that she discovered new possibilities of experimental photography and extreme perpective views, multiple exposures, photograms, and photomontages.
In the following years Florence took part in the exhibitions “Film und Foto” (FiFo) in Stuttgart and “Photographie der Gegenwart”. 1929 she moved to Paris, where she launched a studio for advertising photography, working for Vogue, “Art et Decoration” and “The New York Herald”. She did fashion, advertising and portrait photography. Her images feature unusual perspectives and are carefully cropped. Florence specialized in portrait and became acquainted with Germaine Krull, André Kertész, Man Ray, and Maurice Tabard.
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