Stopping Time: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
4 February, 1-1.45pm
Join us for a lunchtime talk to mark the recent acquisition by Kettle’s Yard of two poetic polaroids taken by photographer Dorothy Bohm in 1981. Bohm’s daughter, art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen will give an illustrated talk setting these polaroid images in the wider context of her late mother’s life and work.
About Dorothy Bohm
Dorothy Bohm was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1924 into an assimilated and cultured Jewish family. In June 1939 her parents decided to send her to the safety of England, which was to become her home for the rest of her life. Dorothy studied photography in Manchester and opened her own portrait studio in the city at the age of 21.
In the late 1940s she started working outside the studio, and by the late 1950s had abandoned studio portraiture for street photography, working in black and white until the early 1980s, before experimenting with the polaroid medium and subsequently abandoning monochrome for colour.
With a career spanning over seven decades and numerous exhibitions and publications to her name, Dorothy Bohm is widely regarded as one of the doyennes of British photography.
About Monica Bohm-Duchen
Monica Bohm-Duchen is a London-based art historian.The exhibitions she has curated include Art in Exile in Great Britain 1933-1945; Chagall to Kitaj: Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art; After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre?. Her many publications include Art and the Second World War.
She is founding director of Insiders/Outsiders, an ongoing celebration of the contribution of refugees from Nazi Europe to British culture, and contributing editor of its companion volume, Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture. She has acted as the curator of her mother Dorothy Bohm’s photographic archive since the late 1990s.
Access
- This event will take place in the Ede Room on the second floor, which is accessible via lift.
- We have wheelchair accessible toilets on the lower ground (level -1), ground and first floor (level 1).
- Kettle’s Yard welcomes assistance and service dogs in all areas.
