A A prominent figure in the Dutch New Photography movement, Eva BesnyA¶ is best known for her remarkable landscapes, portraits, and architectural photographs, which retain their incredible intensity to this day. But beyond her impressive technical accomplishments, BesnyA¶’s cultural and political sensitivities have played an equally influential role in her work.A Beginning her journey with an apprenticeship under renowned Hungarian photographer JA?zsef PA©csi, BesnyA¶ moved to Berlin in the 1930s, where the Modernist avant-garde art scene was a decisive factor in the development of her personal photographic style. An important period for BesnyA¶ intellectually as well, her time in Berlin also laid the foundations for the political awareness that would become an essential element in her life and work. BesnyA¶’s insightful black-and-white photographsa??many of which are reproduced herea??depict dramatic events and political movements that took place throughout Europe in the twentieth...