Ratna "Elie" Mohini (17 May 1904 in

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– 24 October 1988 in

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) was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of the French photographer

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as cap ...

from 1937 to 1967. She was born in Batavia as Carolina Jeanne de Souza-IJke.Kunang Helmi,
Ratna Cartier-Bresson, a fragmented portrait
, in ''Destins croisés entre l'Insulinde et la France'', pp. 253–68, 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 Martine Franck (2 April 1938 – 16 August 2012) was a British-Belgian documentary and portrait photographer. She was a member of Magnum Photos for over 32 years. Franck was the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson and co-founder and president ...

in 1970.Lynne Warren, "After divorcing his wife of 30 years, the Javanese dancer Ratna Mohini, he married the Magnum photographer Martine Franck in 1970." ''Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography'', p. 248

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1904 births 1988 deaths Indonesian female dancers Javanese people French female dancers Indo people People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies 20th-century French women Indonesian emigrants to France {{indonesia-bio-stub