1. Florence Meyer Homolka was an American portrait photographer and socialite.
10 Facts About Florence Meyer
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Florence Meyer was born in New York City, the eldest daughter of Eugene Meyer, future publisher of the Washington Post, and Agnes Elizabeth Meyer.
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Florence Meyer attended the Madeira School and Bryn Mawr College, graduated from Radcliffe College.
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Florence Meyer's work included portraits of Van Cliburn, James Agee, Thomas Mann, Constantin Brancusi, Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Vladimir Horowitz, Lion Feuchtwanger, Arnold Schoenberg, Christopher Isherwood and of fellow photographers Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, and Brassai.
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Florence Meyer was a close friend and protegee of Man Ray, and in 1946 took the photographs for the double wedding portraits of Man Ray and Juliet Browner, and Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning.
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Florence Meyer exhibited her photographs at the Palos Verdes Art Gallery in 1950 and at Los Angeles City Hall in 1952.
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Florence Meyer played the Juggler and the Priestess of the Golden Calf in the original Broadway cast of Kurt Weill's The Eternal Road.
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Florence Meyer was the author of Focus on Art, published posthumously in 1962, with a foreword by Aldous Huxley.
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In 1939, Florence Meyer married the widowed Austrian character actor Oscar Homolka.
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Florence Meyer died from a respiratory attack in Santa Monica in 1962, at the age of 51.