Galería / Dorothy Bohm

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Dorothy Bohm
Café La Palette, Rue de Seine, Paris, 1980

Dorothy Bohm is known for her carefully observed photographs of London and Paris, forming a personalised and poetic body of work created over the course of the last fifty years.

Dorothy Bohm was born into a Jewish Lithuanian family in Konigsberg, East Prussia in 1924 and was sent to Great Britain in 1939. She started her career in photography in 1946 with her own studios in Manchester. The practise of studio portraiture prepared her for the personal work she created during the travels she made from the 1950s onwards. Bohm lived and worked in Paris between 1952 and 1953, before moving on to New York and San Francisco in 1954. In 1956 she settled in Hampstead, North London.

In the hands of Dorothy Bohm the camera is employed to capture the evocative and transient moments from life. Her subjective approach explores the paradoxes of collective human existence and individual isolation with a keen eye for line, form and graphic resonance.

Bohm's photographs have been widely exhibited and published. She has had major retrospectives at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and recently had work included in the Tate Britain exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain. She has produced many books, including, amongst others, A World Observed (1970, with a forward by Roland Penrose), Egypt (1989), Venice (1992), Sixties London (1996), and Breaks in Communications (2002).

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