'Much of Dorothy Bohm's art involves a conversation with precursor photographers of the 1930s, in Berlin, Paris and the Bauhaus. Their ideal then was a perfectly controlled aesthetic, wary of the challenge of raw material. Decay and dissappointment played little part, because it was an aesthetic premised on youth and timelessness. It may never have been more than a conceit, but it was far too attractive ever to be forgotten. A fool's paradise maybe, but a paradise none the less, and one which might still be entertained with provisos. It was, for instance, a studio-based dream, constituted of special lighting effects, make-up and space frames, which are acknowledged here but infiltrated by the realism of the market, by the woman's outfit and that improvised scafforlding in the background. Then - in Berlin, c.1930 - the ideal was intolerant of family ties, of the generations and of the day-to-day preoccupations consistent with Islington market.' Ian Jeffrey

Inscribed on the back 'This is print No.4 of a limited edition of 5'