Moments Unnoticed
Photographs 1927-1936

Exhibition: 11. June - 6. September 2010

Confident, independence-loving women are a major theme for Marianne Breslauer. She herself matched this image of the “New Woman” in the 1920s, a type associated with the bob haircut and the demonstrative gestures of a younger generation aspiring to emancipation. These women were inquisitive, urbane, unencumbered by material worries, and they took advantage of the freedoms society offered between the two world wars as it leapt towards modernisation.

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