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Rinnstein
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
- Toned ? gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
> In this image László Moholy-Nagy has used a camera to transform muddy water into a masterpiece of light and texture. Photographed during a summer visit to Paris, the quotidian subject matter of a street drain offers the raw materials for this abstract composition. The strip of fabric diverting water into the drain becomes a slashing diagonal line, while the drain itself is transformed into a perforated rectangle echoing the shapes used by the artist in his paintings and bearing a close affinity to the effects he was trying to achieve in his photograms. > > Katherine Ware, *László Moholy-Nagy*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 26. © 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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