Dorothy Bohm was a Russian-born British photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris; she is considered one of the doyennes of British photography.
10 Facts About Dorothy Bohm
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Dorothy Bohm was sent to England in 1939 to escape Nazism: first to a boarding school in Ditchling, Sussex, but soon to Manchester, where her brother was a student, and where she met Louis Bohm.
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Dorothy Bohm studied photography at the Manchester Municipal College of Technology, from which she received a diploma; she received a certificate in photography from City and Guilds.
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Dorothy Bohm had worked under the photographer Samuel Cooper for four years until she set up her own portrait studio, Studio Alexander, in 1946, using her nom de guerre Dorothy Alexander.
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Dorothy Bohm's husband worked for a petrochemical company that obliged him to move around the world.
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Dorothy Bohm used colour negative film from 1984, and from 1985 worked exclusively in colour.
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Dorothy Bohm visited South Africa for five weeks in 1974, later exhibiting photographs taken there at the Photographers' Gallery in April 1975.
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Dorothy Bohm was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in November 2009.
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Dorothy Bohm had two daughters, one of whom, Monica Dorothy Bohm-Duchen, is an art historian and curator.
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Dorothy Bohm died in London on 15 March 2023, at the age of 98.