invited by Edori Fertig
Dorothy Bohm
I first met Dorothy through her daughter, Monica, the
art historian and curator. I then became familiar with
Dorothy’s work as a portrait and street photographer
of substantial importance. Her displaced childhood
as a Jewish refugee from Lithuania before World War
Two made her deeply aware of the vulnerability of
human existence and empowered her with the gift
of being able to capture the fleeting moment with a
poetic urgency. She photographs her subjects with
an intimacy, possibly due to her gentle and warm
presence. Her subjects and their relationship to the
paraphernalia of the street coincide with joy, humour,
beauty and humanity.
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