Annemarie Heinrich’s life and work documented in new film
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In Argentina, filmmaker Mariana Sanguinetti created a documentary, Annemarie, about her great-grandmother, photographer Annemarie Heinrich.
Heinrich, born in Germany in 1912 and later living in Buenos Aires, faced a brief scandal in 1991 when someone reported her for displaying a nude photograph in her studio window. The complaint did not lead to consequences and Heinrich continued to receive awards, including being named an Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires. Sanguinetti’s film portrays Heinrich through television archives, photographs, interviews, and family testimonials.
The documentary also focuses on Heinrich’s studio, which served as a home, gallery, and workspace for generations of her family and now holds a vast archive of her work. This archive contains photographs of many subjects, including infants, the writer Jorge Luis Borges, and Eva Duarte before she became Eva Perón. Heinrich arrived in Argentina with her family in 1926, fleeing the worsening political climate in Europe and the threat of another war.
She found work as a photographer, a skill that quickly became an art form. She gained prominence photographing babies and celebrities, eventually becoming a favored portraitist for many famous Argentinians. Sanguinetti describes her great-grandmother as someone who was both attuned to her time and ahead of it, particularly regarding femininity, and whose work achieved international recognition.
