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Female Student with Beach Ball
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Irene Bayer-HechtAmerican Photographer · 1898–1991
All works by this person →Chicago-born but raised in Hungary, Irene Bayer-Hecht studied commercial art in Berlin. After seeing the Bauhaus exhibition in 1923, she decided to concentrate on fine art. In 1925 she married Herbert Bayer and moved to Dessau, where she studied photography at the Bauhaus in order to assist him in his work. Her own photographs were mostly of people, both portraits and formal studies. Bayer's work
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- about 1925
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In the mid-1920s, the advent of small, affordable, hand-held cameras such as the Ermanox and the Leica enabled more people to own a camera, and many photographs produced at the Bauhaus reflect the novelty and ease that these cameras brought to picture-taking. With portable cameras, people could take photographs anywhere--even at the beach--and faster films made it possible to capture motion and spontaneous moments such as this one. The woman's sportiness and skin-baring costume also attest to the changing definitions of femininity in the 1920s.
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