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.[1]

She was born in Batavia as Carolina Jeanne de Souza-IJke.[2] Ratna was known as "Elie" to her friends.[3] Between 1930 and 1935 she was married to the Dutch journalist Willem L. Berretty.

Cartier-Bresson and Mohini divorced in 1967, after 30 years of marriage, and Cartier-Bresson then married the photographer Martine Franck in 1970.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Turner, Christopher (12 April 2010). "Expert Witness: Henri Cartier-Bresson". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Ratna Cartier-Bresson, a fragmented portrait" Kunang Helmi, in Destins croisés entre l'Insulinde et la France, p.253ff ISBN 2-910513-24-6
  3. ↑ Russell Miller, Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History, p.60
  4. ↑ 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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