Portrait

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Portrait

Creator

Florence Henri

American Photographer · 1893–1982

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> What I want above all in photography is to compose the image as I do with paintings. It is necessary that the volumes, lines, the shadows and light obey my will and say what I want them to say. And this under the strictest control of composition, because I do not try either to tell about the world or to tell about my thoughts. All that I know and the way in which I know it is made above all of a

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Date
negative 1928; print 1974
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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A two-panel hinged mirror standing upright on a table, revealing a reflection of the artist on one side.

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