Ratna Mohini

Ratna "Elie" Mohini (1904 Batavia – 1988 Paris) was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of the 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]

Cartier-Bresson and Mohini divorced in 1967, after 30 years of marriage, and Cartier-Bresson then married the photographer Martine Franck in 1970.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Kunang Helmi, "Ratna Cartier-Bresson, a fragmented portrait", in Destins croisés entre l'Insulinde et la France, p.253ff
  2. ↑ Russell Miller, Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History, p.60
  3. ↑ Lynne Warren, "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, p.248

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