A new article by Alison Bailey and Julia Crockatt
Laelia Goehr (pronounced Leyla) was a Russian-born photographer who lived in Amersham in the 1940s.
Laelia had a flourishing career in photography and published several more books including Musicians in Camera in 1987 with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin. She is best known for these portraits of musicians and her subjects included Stravinsky, Jacqueline du Pré, and Count Basie.
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