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Florence Henri

Lucia Moholy British, born Austria-Hungary
1927
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In her 1939 history of photography, Lucia Moholy cited Russian films as one source of inspiration for the new portraiture that emerged in the 1920s: "To the general public in Western Europe this style appears strange and exotic. They find it interesting and worth discussing, but few of them wish to have their portraits taken in the same way." In this formidable portrait of Florence Henri, a Paris-based painter who enrolled in Moholy-Nagy's summer course in 1927, Lucia Moholy employed the kind of extreme close-up that had recently thrilled Berlin audiences in Sergei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin (1925).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Florence Henri
  • Artist: Lucia Moholy (British (born Austria-Hungary), 1894–1989)
  • Date: 1927
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 37.2 x 27.7 cm (14 5/8 x 10 15/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
  • Object Number: 1987.1100.20
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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