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YVA (ELSE SIMON). TANZBAR

Tanzbar. Artist: Yva (Else Simon) (German, 1900-1942). Dimensions: Image: 24.3 x 17.8 cm (9 9/16 x 7 in.). Date: ca. 1930.
Yva worked as a commercial photographer in Berlin specializing in fashion and portrait photography. Here she captures the dreamy narcissism of a dancing couple, for the moment oblivious to the increasingly turbulent world outside the dance hall. Yva's own career was tragically cut short under Nazi rule. A Jew, she was forced to give up management of her studio in 1936; after 1938, no longer allowed to work as a photographer, she became an X-ray technician. She died in a concentration camp in 1942.

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Author:

YVA (ELSE SIMON) (1900-1942)

Title:

TANZBAR

Caption:

Tanzbar. Artist: Yva (Else Simon) (German, 1900-1942). Dimensions: Image: 24.3 x 17.8 cm (9 9/16 x 7 in.). Date: ca. 1930. Yva worked as a commercial photographer in Berlin specializing in fashion and portrait photography. Here she captures the dreamy narcissism of a dancing couple, for the moment oblivious to the increasingly turbulent world outside the dance hall. Yva's own career was tragically cut short under Nazi rule. A Jew, she was forced to give up management of her studio in 1936; after 1938, no longer allowed to work as a photographer, she became an X-ray technician. She died in a concentration camp in 1942.

Technique/material:

Gelatin silver print

Museum:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Releases:

Model: No - Property: No
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Image size:

2989 x 4009 px | 34.3 MB

Print size:

25.3 x 33.9 cm | 10.0 x 13.4 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

EUROPE • GELATIN SILVER PRINT • GELATIN SILVER PRINTS • GERMANY • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • PHOTOGRAPHS • YVA (ELSE SIMON)