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Essay on Florence Henri
Florence Henri was born in New York City in 1893, Henri grew in Europe, where she studied music with great concentration previous to turning to painting. Education as well as travel took her to England, Italy, France and Germany. At the same time as enrolled at the Bauhaus in Dessau for one semester during the summer of 1927, she educated to understand photography as a forum for experimentation. Her attraction with the medium showed the way her to experiment with abstract shapes and complex spatial relationships, frequently using mirrors and reflections to attain her results.
Upon moving to Paris in 1928, Henri arranged a studio for portrait, fashion and promotion photography. She started to bring up surrealist elements into her compositions, forming a dense layering of space by combining reflected surfaces with the methods of montage and collage.
Earning honor for its freshness and modernization, her work was integrated in seminal exhibitions and publications of the late 1920s and early 1930s and therefore contributed to the international language of photographic experimentation recognized as the "new vision" in Europe. Drawn from the Norton's holdings of forty photographs, together with thirteen that entered the collection in 1998 as the souvenir of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim, the exhibition reveals Henri's mastery of portraiture and still life, integrating the performances of the close-up, montage, as well as reflections.
Her work with good grace found accomplishment, she turned out to be well known in Parisian cultural circles and she befriended lots of most important figures for instance Piet Mondrian and Enrico Prampolini, with whom she shared a studio. Her work was as well regularly featured in leading magazines and displayed at international exhibitions.
In spite of these achievements, world depression was disturbing her finances and to increase her income Henri started a commercial photographic studio, started taking pupils and as well stepped into the world of advertising photography....
