Florence Henri
American Photographer · 1893–1982
13 works on LinkedCulture
> 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
Works
![[Abstract Composition (Handrail)]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5763f623-4461-44a3-8fc5-628c970e16a2/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Abstract Composition (Handrail)]
Getty Museum · about 1930
Fenster
Getty Museum · negative 1929; print 1974
Fotomontage
Getty Museum · negative 1932; print 1974
"Jeanne Lanvin"
Getty Museum · negative 1929; print 1974
Komposition I
Getty Museum · negative 1928; print 1974
Komposition II
Getty Museum · negative 1928; print 1974
Komposition III
Getty Museum · negative 1928; print 1974
Obst
Getty Museum · negative 1929; print 1974
Pariser Fenster
Getty Museum · negative 1929; print 1974
Portrait
Getty Museum · negative 1928; print 1974
Portrait
Getty Museum · negative 1933; print 1974
Portrait
Getty Museum · negative 1928; print 1974
Selbstportrait
Getty Museum · negative 1928; print 1974