Cathy's Art Diary

Nostalgic exhibition at the Centre for British Photography of photographs of London markets by Dorothy Bohm. Bohm died aged 98, earlier this year, and the gallery chose to mark this with these street photographs from the 60s and 70s. They covered all the old famous markets, usually bustling with action, but my favourite was this paired down picture of St Paul’s Covent Garden. It was fun listening to a group of people in the show who remembered the markets. One lady’s family had had a stall on one of them. I do like a bit of, what I call, loppy lugging. Closed 17 December 2023

Interesting small exhibition at the Jewish Museum of photographs by Dorothy Bohm of 1960s London. Bohm’s work focuses on social change in this period rather than the Swinging Sixties we normally think of in  London. She had a great eye for composition of a picture and capturing a moment as it happened. I loved a picture of two dogs and their owners meeting in the street, capturing the moment when dogs eye each other up, also one of people at a café in the Kings Road with a broken marble bust by the table. My favourite though was one of two men taking a break from work with pints of beer, sitting on ladders. Closed on 29 August 2016. Review Evening Standard