Alongside Germaine Krull, Florence Henri is considered to be the main representative of New Photography in France, and yet her rich and varied work is relatively unknown. The daughter of a French father and German mother, she arrived in Europe at the age of two, and was granted Swiss citizenship through marriage in 1924. Her artistic training was comprehensive: she studied music under Ferrucio Busoni in Berlin and took lessons at André Lhote’s studio, and Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant’s Modern Academy in Paris. In 1925, she took part in the Parisian exhibition L’Art aujourd’hui, which brought together modern painting trends (Cubism...
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