Marianne Breslauer

Lisa von Cramm,  Berlin, 1934

"Interessiert hat mich nur die Realität, und zwar die unwichtige, die übersehene, von der grossen Masse unbeachtete Realität."

“What interested me was reality ... more precisely, the unimportant reality, the reality most people overlooked.”

Marianne Breslauer (1909-2001) was a German photographer during the Weimar Republic. Her female  portrait photographs are my absolute favourites. She photographed her friends, women like herself, who imbibed the spirit of the modern woman which took root in the 1920s.

Ruth von Morgen, Berlin, 1934

Sacrow, 1934

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Marianne Breslauer, self portrait

Ruth von Morgen, Berlin, 1934

Ruth von Morgen, 1933

Annemarie Schwarzenbach, outside Berlin,  c.1930's

The difference in styles between these portraits and the dress of the typical stylish 1930s woman.