A World Observed 1940-2010 Photographs by Dorothy Bohm

by Ford, Colin; Jeffrey, Ian; Bohm-Duchen, Monica

• ISBN13: 9780856676888
• ISBN10: 0856676888
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Atlasbooks Dist Serv

Summary

Dorothy Bohm is widely considered one of the doyennes of British photography. To date, however, there has not been a major retrospective of her career and oeuvre, which span six decades (from the 1940s to the present day) and several continents. This situation is to be changed by an exhibition of some 250 of her photographs at Manchester Art Gallery in 2010. The accompanying book, the most detailed and comprehensive to date, is also the first publication of its kind. Lavishly illustrated with numerous full-page reproductions of the photographs displayed at the exhibition, as well as others not exhibited, the book contains three substantial essays, which cover Bohm's life, her work within the history of photography and visual culture, and her status as a female photographer. The work concludes with an extensive and easy-to-use index of thumbnail reproductions of her work.

Author Biography

Colin Ford CBE began his career in the theatre, and is an experienced director and broadcaster. He was keeper of film and photography at the National Portrait Gallery in London (1972-82) before becoming the founding head of Britain’s National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford (now the National Media Museum). Among his dozen or so books on the history of photography are An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (1974), The Cameron Collection: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron (1975) and Portraits (1982).

Ian Jeffrey is an internationally-known authority on the history of photography. His Photography: A Concise History (1981) has become a classic. His other publications include The Photography Book (1997) and Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography (1999). He has taught principally at Goldsmiths College, University of London and the Central European University, Prague.

Monica Bohm-Duchen is an exhibition organizer, lecturer and freelance writer. She co-curated Art in Exile in Great Britain 1933-1945, an exhibition held in Berlin and London in 1985-1986 and curated a major international exhibition entitled After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art, which toured the UK during 1995. Her books include Arnold Daghani (1987), Understanding Modern Art (1991), Chagall (1998), Eva Frankfurther 1930-1959 (2001) and The Art and Life of Josef Herman (2009). She was a visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London in 1999 and 2004, and currently teaches at Birkbeck College and New York University in London.

Table of Contents

Dorothy Bohm: A Life in Photography -- Colin Ford * The Photographs * Making Pictures: The Art of Dorothy Bohm -- Ian Jeffrey * Dorothy Bohm: Portrait of the Photographer as a Woman -- Monica Bohm-Duchen * Dorothy Bohm’s Cameras * Chronology * Select Bibliography * Photographic Index