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Though predominantly known as a documentary photographer, she began experimenting with colour processes in the 1950s. In Torn Posters, Bohm photographs urban ‘décollage’ in which an original image is cut, torn, or removed from its original context. She located sites where billboards, posters and advertisements had been repeatedly built up and eroded over time, and once they had ‘matured’ she photographed the remains. Bohm focused on the presence of women, emphasizing the sexualised motif of a woman’s mouth or the feminine gestures made by arms and hands. 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In 1958 she abandoned portraiture and sold her studio, raising two daughters during this period. In 1969 she held first exhibition at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts; in 1970 she published her first book, A World Observed and in 1971 was closely involved with the founding of The Photographers’ Gallery in London, of which she became the Associate Director for fifteen years. 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