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Die zerrüttete Ehe

Date

1925

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

> The husband and wife in this image are two-faced in both senses—their faces are fused onto the same head and neither seems to wear an honest expression. Although the woman smiles brightly, she supports her chin like Rodin’s *Thinker*, sightlessly pondering her situation. Meanwhile, her husband’s eyeglasses stray toward a projection of another woman, to whom he extends his hand. A mass of electric curlers protrudes in all directions from the couples head, suggesting his current of attraction to the woman on the screen and his wife’s strategy of a new hairdo as an antidote to infidelity. Another woman’s hand emerges from the wall, delicately reaching toward a pair of staring eyes. Perhaps due to the domestic subject, László Moholy-Nagy has created an elaborate architectural space for the unhappy couple, a constricting room with windows and many overlapping side panels. > > Katherine Ware, *László Moholy-Nagy*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 28. © 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum.

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