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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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- 1924
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
> After the death of Friedrich Ebert in 1925, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany. German art historian Irene-Charlotte Lusk identifies Hindenburg and Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann as the politicians pictured in *Our Big Men*, accompanied by their larger-than-life shadows and Hindenburg’s oversized top hat and cigar. The anonymous common man between them may be dwarfed and cornered by these two august officials, but their hats are off to him and he stands at the apex of the triangle formed by the three figures. The title pokes fun at the two leaders, suggesting ineffectualness. Stresemann, however, who shared the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize with Aristide Briand of France, was essential in restoring prosperity to German. > > Katherine Ware, *László Moholy-Nagy*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 24. © 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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