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Dream of the Boarding School Girls
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
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- 1925
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
> In this work László Moholy-Nagy presents us with three different performances: uniformed boarding school girls dutifully lined up in an H configuration, leaping male athletes, and two female contortionists. Presumably the boarding school girls yearn to break free of their formation in order to achieve the independence and individuality of the figures sporting before them. The artist’s characteristic Constructivist lines connect the elements of the composition and lend it dynamism. They also suggest the precision of architectural or engineering plans. > > Katherine Ware, *László Moholy-Nagy*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 30. © 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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