The big picture: Dorothy Bohm on the streets of Lisbon
19-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com

The big picture: Dorothy Bohm on the streets of Lisbon

The pioneering ​photographer, who would have been 100 next month, showcases her eye for the uncanny​ with this image of a newspaper standFrom the moment her father took his Leica camera from around his neck and gave it to Dorothy Bohm as she boarded a train out of Nazi-occupied Lithuania in June 1939, she seemed fated to her vocation. Bohm – then Dorothea Israelit – was 14 at the time and the journey took her to England as a refugee; she lodged with a family in Hassocks i
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