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Women and Children First: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm

6 Jul – 7 Oct 2012

Exhibition

Dimbola Museums and Galleries

Terrace Lane
Freshwater Bay
PO40 9QE

01983 756 814

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Women and Children First: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm

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Women children first

From 6th July - 7th October 2012

Dorothy Bohm is a key figure in British photography.

This exhibition of approximately forty black and white images of women and children, dating from the late 1940s to the early 1980s, is drawn from A World Observed, the first comprehensive retrospective of her work, which was a major hit at Manchester Art Gallery in 2010, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, in 2011.

Her striking photographs focus on the human figure in its natural setting, capturing moments in the lives of ordinary people across the world. As she herself admits, her gender has permitted an intimacy and immediacy of access, particularly to other women and to children, often denied to men.

Born into a Jewish family in East Prussia in 1924, Bohm was sent to school in the UK in 1939 to escape the threat of Nazism. She studied photography in Manchester and went on to establish a successful portrait studio there. In the late 1940s, she discovered a love for open-air photography, and soon abandoned studio work to focus on ‘street photography’.

At the age of 88, her enthusiasm for taking pictures continues unabated.This exhibition, however, concentrates on the first part of her long career, before she abandoned black and white for colour photography.

The exhibition has been curated by Dorothy Bohm’s daughter, Monica Bohm-Duchen, and Colin Ford CBE (Vice-President, Julia Margaret Cameron Trust)

Image:'Mainland Greece, 1950’& 'Oaxaca Mexico, 1956' both by Dorothy Bohm



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