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1924 | Born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, into Jewish-Lithuanian family. |
1939 | To escape threat of Nazism, was sent to England to finish her schooling. |
1942 | Graduated from Manchester College of Technology. Worked in leading portrait studio in central Manchester. |
1945 | Married Louis Bohm. |
1946 | Opened "Studio Alexander" in Manchester. |
1947 | Frequent visits (until 1952) to Ascona in the Ticino, Switzerland. |
1948 | First visit to Israel. |
1953 | Lived in Paris, travelled extensively in Europe (and would continue to do so). |
1955 | Lived in New York and San Francisco; travelled extensively in USA and Mexico. Experimented with AGFA colour film, but continued to work in black and white. |
1956 | Settled in Hampstead, North London, where she still lives. |
1957 | Daughter Monica born. |
1960 | Daughter Yvonne born. |
1961 | Visited the USSR; photographed in Moscow & Leningrad. |
1971 | Closely involved with the founding of The Photographers’ Gallery, London, and its Associate Director for next 15 years. |
1974 | Visited South Africa. |
1980 | BBC2 Television documentary Dorothy Bohm-Photographer. Experimented with colour photography, using SX70 Polaroid camera. |
1985 | Started to work exclusively with colour film. Visited Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. |
1986 & 1987 | Visited Egypt. |
1991 | Several visits to Venice. |
1995 | Interviewed by Mark Haworth-Booth for the Oral History of British Photography, National Sound Archive, British Library, London. |
1998 | Founded Focus Gallery for Photography, Bloomsbury, London. |
2009 | Appointed Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. |
2014 | Work included in The History of European Photography, 1939-69 (FOTOFO, Bratislava). |
2015 | Included in Britain's Greatest Generation, BBC2 TV series. |
2018 | Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm, documentary film directed by Richard Shaw |