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Hoch die Einheitsfront
Creator
László Moholy-NagyAmerican Photographer · 1895–1946
All works by this person →> The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras. > > --László Moholy-Nagy > > Perhaps more than any other artist in the Getty Museum collection, László Moholy-Nagy would have delighted in the presentation of his im
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1925–1930
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0d27b6d2-3b70-4fcd-a313-99b06bf54b6b
> This documentary-style photograph is unusual in László Moholy-Nagy’s oeuvre during this period and may have been taken to serve as source material for an exhibition design or commercial project. However, large prints of this image and a similar view in the Getty collection ([84.XM.997.66](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/46650/laszlo-moholy-nagy-hoch-die-einheitsfront-american-1925-1930/)), both bearing the artist’s wet stamp, suggesting that it was meant to stand alone. The sea of people attending this rally for the Factory Workers Association in Berlin dissolves into a pattern of round faces and hats that would have been of visual interest to Moholy-Nagy. > > Adapted from Katherine Ware, *László Moholy-Nagy*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 62. © 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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