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| 1. |  | Fritz Henle 2009 Poster for the exhibition "Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty" Poster Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 2. |  | Fritz Henle 1930 Pyramid of Cheops, Egypt Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 3. |  | Fritz Henle 1935 The Great Wall, China Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 4. |  | Fritz Henle 1943 Factory Worker, Mexico Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 5. |  | Fritz Henle 1936 Rebel in the Making: Schoolboys Exercising, with One Eating an Apple, Tokyo, Japan Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 6. |  | Fritz Henle 1958 Sisal Factory, Haiti Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 7. |  | Fritz Henle 1943 (ca) Freedom: Yucca Plant, New Mexico Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. "I believe that there are few photographs which have been published as many times as this plant in the White Sands desert in New Mexico! Whoever it was that selected the picture must have been moved by its symbolism the struggle for survival. I took the photograph during a period of great personal loneliness, and this inner loneliness became a stark outward reality when, after hours of walking in the desert, I found myself lost in this limitless space. By re-tracing my footsteps, I managed to regain sight of my car in the far, far distance. The creation of the picture had so captivated me that I had lost count of time and distance." From 'Notes on the Photographs' in Fritz Henle ® 1973. |
| 8. |  | Fritz Henle 1937 52nd Street: Chorus Girl in Night Club, New York City Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 9. |  | Fritz Henle 1947 The Art Critic, Washington Square, New York City Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 10. |  | Fritz Henle 1950 Sailor on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 11. |  | Fritz Henle 1950 Lower Manhattan seen from Brooklyn, New York City Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 12. |  | Fritz Henle 1945 (ca) Elevated Train Station at 6th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 13. |  | Fritz Henle 1947 Father at the Brooklyn Bridge, Sunday Morning, Lower East Side, New York City Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 14. |  | Fritz Henle 1955 Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City Coloy print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 15. |  | Fritz Henle 1945 Fashion Model with Flower Vendor at the Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 16. |  | Fritz Henle 1952 (ca) Jeannie Patchett, Fashion Model, New York City Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 17. |  | Fritz Henle 1948 On the Beach, Fredericksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 18. |  | Fritz Henle 1948 Model Catherine Cassidy at the Old Sugar Mill, St. Croix, Virgin Islands Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 19. |  | Fritz Henle 1948 Model Catherine Cassidy with Caribbean Schooner Leaving the Harbor, Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 20. |  | Fritz Henle 1947 Model in Leopard Coat at LaGuardia Airport, New York City Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 21. |  | Fritz Henle 1945 Fashion for the Farm by Mary Lewis, New York Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 22. |  | Fritz Henle 1947 Hawaiian Net Caster, Hawaii Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. When I photographed the Hawaiian Islands after the war, I was happy to find there was still a great deal of native tradition and folklore. My book Hawaii immortalizes some of the islands' wonderful but vanishing native people , and my friend Stanley Stubenberg, who was born in Hawaii, knew nothing of this book before we met and told me of the impact my pictures had made. This fisherman, photographed on the coast of Oahu, was throwing his net for the daily catch a beautiful image of strength and motion accompanied by the thunder of the Hawaiian surf." From 'Notes on the Photographs' in Fritz Henle ® 1973. |
| 23. |  | Fritz Henle 1960 Sunset on Christiansted Harbor, St. Croix, Virgin Islands Color print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 24. |  | Fritz Henle 1948 Salvage Off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 25. |  | Fritz Henle 1945 The Diver, Mexico Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 26. |  | Fritz Henle 1955 Sails of a Yacht in the Caribbean Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 27. |  | Fritz Henle 1974 The Grenadine Racing Off St. John, Virgin Islands Color print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 28. |  | Fritz Henle 1953 Nude, Virgin Gorda, Virgin Islands Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. "In all art studies, the rendition of the human figure has an important place. To master this medium photographically is extremely difficult, and one of the great challenges to the photographer. In Marguerite I found an exquisite model, and she became the subject of my book Figure Studies. One day we sailed past these huge granite blocks on a little Caribbean island, and it was then that I perceived the beautiful inter-relationship between the soft outline of the human body and the crude and fantastically shaped rocks." From 'Notes on the Photographs' in Fritz Henle ® 1973. |
| 29. |  | Fritz Henle 1975 (ca) The Story of Life: Underwater Nude, St. Croix, Virgin Islands Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 30. |  | Fritz Henle 1949 Tutwiler Refinery at Night, Lake Charles, Louisiana Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 31. |  | Fritz Henle 1953 (ca) Cities Service Oil Refinery at Night, Lake Charles, Louisiana Color print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 32. |  | Fritz Henle 1943 Nieves, Mexico Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. "Nieves, a Mexican-Indian beauty, was the subject of the cover of my book Mexico, and this picture was the favourite among the collection which I did for Alexei Brodovitch in the special edition of Harpers Bazaar. Nieves, a model used by the famous painters Diego Rivera and Orozco, had great poise and presence while at the same time being shy and seemingly unaware of the fascination which she radiated. How to capture this in a photograph? Her own intuition helped create this picture of her playfully hiding behind a banana leaf in the garden of her home in Cuernavaca." From 'Notes on the Photographs' in Fritz Henle ® 1973. This photograph was used on the cover for Roy Flukinger "Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty" (University of Texas Press, 2009) |
| 33. |  | Fritz Henle 1941 (ca) Canada Lee in Native Son, New York City. Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 34. |  | Fritz Henle 1937 Frida Kahlo at Xochimilco, Mexico Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 35. |  | Fritz Henle 1967 Coal Miner of the Ruhr Valley, Germany Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. "I have always been intensely interested in human beings, and in many of my pictures I depict them in close relationship to their surroundings. At the time when I was documenting a number of Western European countries, one of the most fascinating regions was the Ruhr district in Germany. An accident had recently taken place in a mine, and permission to go underground was refused; when I entered a dimly lit room near the top of a pit, however, I met this miner who had just come up from the bottom of the pit. He seemed completely exhausted, and he paid very little attention to my camera (which was handheld). I very rarely use a tripod, since it cuts down on mobility, and prefer the spontaneous approach in which a fraction of a second frequently makes the picture." From 'Notes on the Photographs' in Fritz Henle ® 1973. |
| 36. |  | Fritz Henle 1982 Pablo Casals Practicing in His Music Room at Calle Himalaya, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 37. |  | Fritz Henle 1938 Café on the Bastille, Paris Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 38. |  | Fritz Henle 1938 The Woman and the God, Paris. Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. "When I received the assignment to photograph Paris, I was fortunate enough to have no preconceived ideas. Atget's work was not known at the times, and it was only in later years that I realized how closely some of my impressions approached his images. This picture of the god and the woman in the Jardin du Louvre is unposed, and I came upon it while walking in garden." From 'Notes on the Photographs' in Fritz Henle ® 1973. |
| 39. |  | Fritz Henle 1938 Young Woman with Loaf of Bread, Paris Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 40. |  | Fritz Henle 1938 Thomas Jefferson High School: Lariat Girls, San Antonio, Texas Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 41. |  | Fritz Henle 1938 Thomas Jefferson High School: ROTC Students, San Antonio, Texas Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 42. |  | Fritz Henle 1938 Thomas Jefferson High School: Graduation Party, San Antonio, Texas Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 43. |  | Fritz Henle 1949 Cowboys and Oil Derrick, Texas Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. "A photographer's life is frequently something like a story book. When United Airlines assigned me to create a collection of pictures for them in Hawaii, I had no idea that this would prove to be the first step towards an assignment for the Oil Industry. I reflected on the best way to handle such contrasts, and I came up with a solution which delighted my client: I decided to humanize the theme. A drilling rig is in itself of little human interest, and I hit upon the notion of establishing the location and dramatizing the image by using the human element. This is one of the few photographs for which I used 1/500th sec., the fastest shutter speed on my Rolleiflex." From 'Notes on the Photographs' in Fritz Henle ® 1973. |
| 44. |  | Fritz Henle 1933 (ca) Self-portrait Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 45. |  | Unidentified photographer 1947 (ca) Fritz Henle working in studio Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 46. |  | Fritz Henle 1938 (ca) Self-portrait Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 47. |  | Unidentified photographer 1970 Fritz Henle on St. Croix Gelatin silver print Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 48. |  | Fritz Henle 2009 Book cover for Roy Flukinger "Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty" (University of Texas Press, 2009) Book cover Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. Available in February 2009, "Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty," co-published by the Ransom Center and the University of Texas Press, includes more than 125 images of Henle's prints. Roy Flukinger, senior research curator of photography at the Ransom Center, is the author. The cover includes the Fritz Henle photograph of "Nieves, Mexico" (1943) Nieves was a notable Mexican-Indian beauty and model for artists. |
| 49. |  | Pete Smith n.d. 1984 Platin Edition of Rolleiflex camera. the 500 cameras were modeled after the Rolleiflex that Fritz Henle used in the 1930s. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |
| 50. |  | Pete Smith n.d. 1984 Platin Edition of Rolleiflex camera. the 500 cameras were modeled after the Rolleiflex that Fritz Henle used in the 1930s. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin © Fritz Henle Estate, Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. |