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to train for ballet (after participating with choreographer Astrid
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took some test photographs of her. In July 1939, she appeared in the German illustrated weekly
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Fonssagrives worked with many noted fashion photographers, including
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in 1935; they divorced in 1949. She married
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in the 1960s and was represented by the Marlborough Gallery in
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