About Women: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm - Hardcover

Dorothy Bohm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907893814 ISBN 13: 9781907893810

Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

'About Women' is Dorothy Bohm s first book to focus exclusively on the subject of women. Taken throughout the world, from the late 1940s until the present day, her photographs range from images of ordinary women going about their everyday activities, to explorations of the role that representations of women, in the form of advertisements, posters and mannequins, play in contemporary westernised society. The photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, are complemented by an insightful foreword by novelist Marika Cobbold and an informative essay, based on conversations with Dorothy Bohm, by photography curator and historian Amanda Hopkinson.

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About the Author:

Dorothy Bohm was born in Königsberg, East Prussia in 1924 and came to England as a refugee from Nazism in 1939. After studying photography in Manchester she opened her own portrait studio in the city at the age of 21. In the late 1940s a visit to Switzerland prompted her to work outside the studio, and by the late 1950s she had abandoned studio portraiture for street photography, working in black and white until the early 1980s before moving totally to colour. Her first exhibition, 'People at Peace', was held at the ICA, London, in 1969, and her first book, 'A World Observed' was published in 1970. Closely involved in the founding of the Photographers Gallery in the early 1970s, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2009. With numerous exhibitions and publications to her name, Dorothy Bohm is widely regarded as one of the doyennes of British photography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1907893814
• ISBN 13: 9781907893810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 152