"I have spent my lifetime taking photographs. The photograph fulfils my deep need to stop things from disappearing. It makes transience less painful and retains some of the special magic, which I have looked for and found. I have tried to create order out of chaos, to find stability in flux and beauty in the most unlikely places." Dorothy Bohm [http://www.dorothybohm.com/main_one.php] Bohm was born Dorothea Israelit in 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a German-speaking family of Jewish-Lithuanian origins. From 1932-39 she lived with her family in Lithuania, first in Memel (now Klaipėda) and later in Šiauliai. She was sent to England in 1939 to escape Nazism: first to a boarding school in Ditchling, Sussex, but London soon to Manchester, where her brother was a student, and where she met Louis Bohm (whom she would marry in 1945). Dorothy Bohm studied photography at the Manchester Municipal College of Technology, from which she received a diploma; she also received a certificate in photography from City and Guilds. She 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. (She would sell the studio in 1958.) Samples from this early portrait work would be exhibited decades later. Bohm's husband worked for a petrochemical company that obliged him to move around the world. In 1947 she made the first of several visits to Paris, where she lived with her husband from 1954-55. In the 1950s she also lived in New York and San Francisco, in 1956 traveling to Mexico, where she photographed in color for the first time. She has lived in Hampstead since 1956. By the late 1950s, Dorothy Bohm had abandoned studio portraiture in favor of 'street photography', but was still working predominantly in black and white; in 1980 she was persuaded by André Kertész to experiment with color... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Bohm] undefined

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