Irena Bluhova - Shepherds

Irena Bluhova - Shepherds

later gelatin silver print (around 1970) from the original negative from 1928-29 (author's copy), 24 x 18 cm, artists stamp, hand signed, unframed.


Irena Blühová (2 March 1904 – 30 November 1991)
was one of the first women Slovak photographers and one of the first photographers in Czechoslovakia to use photography as a means of documentary study and social commentary. During World War II she was a communist dissident, working in the underground to disseminate literature and help refugees fleeing persecution. In early 1931, Blühová began studying at the Bauhaus in Dessau under the photographer Walter Peterhans.