Florence Henri

Florence Henri, (1893-1982) was born in New York from a French father and German mother. She was formed in Europe in the international artistic circles; at the beginning, she studied piano and then devote herself to painting and photography.

Women with a strong and unconventional character, is known to be as the artist who used the medium of photography in a new way, moving it away from the realistic photographic image, and elevating its status to a major art. Her photographic creations, always elegant, are the result of continuous research and mise-en-scène. Florence Henri experienced the technique of photomontage, using a variety of lens, the negative printing associated to the positive, the superposition of images, the use of mirrors to distort the perspectives and many other innovative techniques . Thanks to her special approach, his subjects, ranging from portraits to still life, from nude to the landscape, are always original and innovative.