Showing posts with label Retna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retna. Show all posts

Monday, February 16, 2015

Legendary dancer Retna, Cartier-Bresson.

Legendary dancer Retna, Cartier-Bresson's Indonesian influence | The Jakarta Post:

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. Ratna was known as "Elie" to her friends.
Cartier-Bresson and Mohini divorced in 1967, after 30 years of marriage, and Cartier-Bresson then married the photographer Martine Franck in 1970.