FLORENCE HENRI
FOTOGRAFIE 1927 - 1938
Giovanni Batista Martini, Alberto Ronchetti
and Bruno Monguzzi
Giovanni Batista Martini, and Alberto Ronchetti: FLORENCE HENRI FOTOGRAFIE 1927 - 1938. NAP: N. D. Text in Italian. Plain black wrappers. Photographically printed dust jacket. 140 pp. 83 black and white plates. Designed by Bruno Monguzzi. Wrappers lightly edgeworn and slightly nicked. A nearly fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
9.25 x 11 softcover book with 140 pages and 83 black and white plates. Anonymously produced exhibition catalog devoted to the pioneering photography of American-born Florence Henri.
Florence Henri (1893 -1982) spent most of her life in France, where she was closely associated with major figures of European modernism. Initially a student of painting at Fernand Léger and Amdee Ozenfant's Academie Moderne in Paris, she quickly became a gifted participant in the most advanced art movements of the time — late Cubism, Purism, and Constructivism. In 1928, having spent a semester at the Bauhaus in Dessau, she turned to the camera and moved swiftly from the avant-garde of one art form to the avant-garde of another. For a heady ten years before the interruption of World War II, Henri created an extraordinary body of work -- still lifes, abstract compositions, advertising photographs, and photomontages -- that contributed to the development of geometric abstract art and of modern photography in France.