'A School for Becoming Human?': Women Photographers in Anti-fascist Resistance Movements in 1930s Central Europe

• In Event: The Limits of Liberation and the Central European Avant-Garde

Abstract

This paper addresses the activities of women photographers in anti-fascist resistance movements in 1930s Central Europe. Focusing on the work of figures such as Judit Kárász, Irena Bluehová and Edit Tudor-Hart, it traces how Bauhaus-trained artists adapted their photographic practice in Central Europe in the service of left-wing politics, paying particular attention to the circulation of their work in magazines such as Der Kuckuck, DAV and Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung.

Author

• Julia Secklehner, Constructor U (Germany)