? Photograph by Edith Tudor-Hart
Cafe Interior, Vienna
Photographed about 1932
The location of this cafe is something of a mystery, although it clearly evokes the comfortable self-containment that many historians have argued was a defining feature of Viennese modernity. The city?s celebrated cafe culture was at once a refuge from a difficult world and also a space where individuals could linger for hours, talk, write and read a selection of newspapers. If there is something unusual about Tudor-Hart?s view, it is that she shows a public space, often associated with male artists and intellectuals, as dominantly occupied by women.
