Hans Bellmer Photography

Hans Bellmer’s photographs were taken after the 1st world war and before the 2nd world war.  It can be said that his photographs focus on women and their legs.  This could be because this is when prosthetic legs were first being used and his photographs can be seen as anti war contemporary art.  He depicts women and their legs in a vulgar and shocking way to his audiences.  There is no identity of the women in these photographs, as in many of the images there are no faces. The women are almost displayed as an object rather than a human being, their identity is lost.