Marianne Breslauer. Photographs

Marianne Breslauer left behind only a small photographic oeuvre, but one that is all the richer and that still has an undiminished freshness. It was created in the short period between 1927 and 1938 that is, at a time when photography was moving from the status of a painterly salon art to that of a radical new photography, a new artistic medium with inherent qualities of its very own. Marianne Breslauer found herself in the middle of this upheaval and so was also torn between an artistic avant-garde’s delight in experimentation and the (supposed) stability of her upper-class parental home. source: Fotostiftung Schweiz