1. Annemarie Heinrich was a German-born naturalized Argentine photographer, who specialized in portraits and nude photographs.
10 Facts About Annemarie Heinrich
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Annemarie Heinrich is known for having photographed various celebrities of Argentine cinema, such as Tita Merello, Carmen Miranda, Zully Moreno and Mirtha Legrand; as well as other cultural personalities like Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda and Eva Peron.
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Annemarie Heinrich went to school in Berlin, before moving to Larroque, Entre Rios Province, with her family in 1926, her father having been injured during the First World War.
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Annemarie Heinrich apprenticed with other European expatriate photographers, including Austrian photographer Melitta Lang.
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Annemarie Heinrich married Ricardo Sanguinetti, a writer under the name Alvaro Sol, in the same year.
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Annemarie Heinrich co-founded Foto Club Argentino and was a founding member of Consejo Argentino de Fotografia and the Consejo Latinoamericano de Fotografia.
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Annemarie Heinrich's photos were the cover of magazines such as El Hogar, Sintonia, Alta Sociedad, Radiolandia and Antena for forty years.
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Annemarie Heinrich was in the Junta de la Victoria, a women's group advocating against fascism and for the Allies.
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Annemarie Heinrich was brought to court in 1991 for displaying one of her nude photographs in the Avenida Callao studio window.
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Annemarie Heinrich's archive has been digitised in a project between the British Library Endangered Archives Programme and the Institute for Research in Art and Culture, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, in 2016.