eorge Hoyningen-Huene took this famous picture, Divers, not at the French riviera, as it seems, but on the roof of thestudio on the Champs-Élysées. The image originally appeared in a magazine spread headlined “Modern Mariners Put Out to Sea”. Its grand make-believe was characteristic of Hoyningen-Huene, friend and confidant toabout the identity of the two models in the shot.
Because he was mostly a commercial photographer, Hoyningen-Huene’s work has tended to be overlooked beside those of his contemporaries and friends Man Ray, Berenice Abbott and André Kertész, with whom he exhibited at the Premier Salon Indépendant de la Photographie Moderne in 1928.
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