Andre de Dienes was born in Transylvania,
Romania in 1913, he left home at fifteen and travleled through Europe, before
ending up in Tunisia, where he worked odd jobs, learned to paint, and bought
his first camera. In 1933 de Dienes arrived in Paris. He made a living selling
photographs to the communist newspaper La Humanite and the Associated Press
until 1936, when the couturier Captain Molyneux encouraged him to become a
fashion photographer. He came to America in 1938 as a young photographer with
the help of Esquire Magazine. In New York he worked as a fashion photographer
while photographing Harlem street life. He traveled throughout the country,
fascinated by the grandeur of the western landscape and the Native American
people, documenting their rich culture.
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