Tanzbar
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Tanzbar
- Artist: Yva (Else Simon) (German, 1900–1942)
- Date: ca. 1930
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 24.3 x 17.8 cm (9 9/16 x 7 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.100.182
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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