Tanzbar

Yva (Else Simon)

ca. 1930 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Yva worked as a commercial photographer in Berlin specializing in fashion and portrait photography. Here she captures the dreamy narcissism of a dancing couple, for the moment oblivious to the increasingly turbulent world outside the dance hall. Yva's own career was tragically cut short under Nazi rule. A Jew, she was forced to give up management of her studio in 1936; after 1938, no longer allowed to work as a photographer, she became an X-ray technician. She died in a concentration camp in 1942.

Artist

Yva (Else Simon)

Date

ca. 1930

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005