Publisher's Description
Dorothy Bohm: Breaks in Communication
Edited by Martin Harrison.
Essays by Mark Haworth-Booth and Martin Harrison.
In the 1980s Andre Kertesz encouraged Dorothy Bohm to switch to color film.
Immediately thereafter, torn advertising posters, graffiti, and vernacular
murals began to emerge as one of the persistent themes in her work. If their
initial appeal for her was their seductive visuality, their deeper significance
arguably stems from her history as a Lithuanian refugee who lost touch with
most of her family when she immigrated there as a teenager in 1939. A sense
of loss is acute and ever-present in her compelling images of witty and
melancholic transient worlds.
A doyenne of British photography, Dorothy Bohm was born in 1924 in
Konigsberg and has been taking pictures for over So years. Since 1970, ten
books have been published on her photographic work. Bohm lives and
works in London.
Book Information
ISBN:
3882438134
Publisher:
Steidl/Victoria and Albert Museum
Format:
Paperback, 132 pages
Language:
English
Dimensions:
9.5 x
13 x
0.6 inches