Time travel
Time travel
August 10, 2016
Dorothy Bohm, Rue Tholozé, Montmartre, 1954
Leica photographer Neil Libbert (*1938) began his career as a photo reporter in London in 1961, working for, among others, The Observer, The Sunday Times and The New York Times. Even so, the photos shown at the Unseen exhibition concentrate on New York. They were taken in the early sixties and, as the exhibition title suggest, have received little exposure to date.
Wolfgang Suschitzky (*1912) fled the Nazis to London in 1935. During the war years, the trained photographer worked as a camera assistant for the documentary film maker and producer Paul Rotha. Suschitzky’s London photos taken before and during the war focus mainly on the city’s poorer population.
Dorothy Bohm (*1924) finished her training as a photographer in Manchester during the Second World War. She visited Paris for the first time in 1947. Delighted with the French capital, she concentrated on taking pictures that reveal the contrast between the beauty of the city and the poverty of the post-war years. Her photographs have also only rarely been presented publicly.
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Dorothy Bohm, Rue Tholozé, Montmartre, 1954
Neil Libbert, Grand Central Station, 1960
Neil Libbert, Wall Street, 1968
Wolf Suschitzky, Milkman on the Charing Cross Road, 1935