Ratna Mohini

Ratna Mohini
Ratna Mohini
Born(1904-05-17)17 May 1904
Died24 October 1988(1988-10-24) (aged 84)
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Ratna "Elie" Mohini (17 May 1904 – 24 October 1988) was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1937 to 1967.

She was born in Batavia as Carolina Jeanne de Souza-IJke. Ratna was known as "Elie" to her friends. 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.

Mohini died in Paris in 1988.

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