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.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.Russell Miller, Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History, p. 60 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.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
Mohini died in Paris in 1988.
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