Ratna Mohini
Ratna "Elie" Mohini (1904 Batavia – 1988 Paris) was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1937 to 1967. She was born in Batavia under the name Carolina Jeanne de Souza-Ijke.[1] Ratna was known as "Elie" to her friends.[2]
Henri and Ratna divorced in 1967, after 30 years of marriage, and Henri then married photographer Martine Franck in 1970.[3]
Notes
- ^ Ratna Cartier-Bresson, a fragmented portrait by Kunang Helmi, in Destins croisés entre l'Insulinde et la France, p.253ff
- ^ Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History by Russell Miller p.60 [1]
- ^ "After divorcing his wife of 30 years, the Javanese dancer Ratna Mohini, he married the Magnum photographer Martine Franck in 1970." Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography Lynne Warren p.248 [2]
References
- Ratna Cartier-Bresson, a fragmented portrait by Kunang Helmi, in Destins croisés entre l'Insulinde et la France ISBN 2910513246 [3]
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1904 |
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