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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dorothy Bohm, South Kensington, 1960s

Dorothy Bohm

South Kensington, 1960s
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
24.3 x 30.1 cms
9 5/8 x 11 7/8 ins
Signed and dated
11872
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Exhibitions

'Writing Her Own Script' at Photo London, Somerset House (11-14 May 2023)

Literature

Cropped version appears as plate 37 on Amanda Hopkinson and Ian Jeffrey, Sixties London. Photographs by Dorothy Bohm, Lund Humphries, London, 1996
'Rarely doeas a picture centre so insistently on a tablula rasa as open as this, although the photographer's sub-text in South Kensington is more than likely the future centripetally arranged...
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'Rarely doeas a picture centre so insistently on a tablula rasa as open as this, although the photographer's sub-text in South Kensington is more than likely the future centripetally arranged and ready to crowd in towards inscription. They void's only participant thus far seems to be Everyman in a hat feebly shielding his eyes in reaction to what could easily be taken for a racist taunt or observation. OFF LICENCE appears to figure also in the picture's meaning, probably in relation to 'The Denmark', as the other piece of reading-matter on offer; with the one serving as a token of a new ubiquitous culture of non-places while the other, sculpted and inscribed, embodies the values of an antecedent culture in which identities were more firmly lodged and specific.' Ian Jeffrey
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