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Sport Macht
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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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- 1927
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
> Here László Moholy-Nagy continues to experiment with methods of animating the still photograph. The curving lines and shaded section of the overlapping circles in this composition provide a dynamism worthy of the leaping athletes and recall a schematic drawing for simultaneous film projection in Moholy-Nagy’s *Malerei, Photographie, Film* (Painting, photography, film). Two pairs of women’s legs provide a kind of hurdle or finish line; one of the jumpers takes the picture’s title to heart and looks down before leaping past the disembodied limbs. At left, a large woman in heavy clothing remains stationary in her own circle. An inscription in pencil at the bottom of the print warns, “Exercise or be fat,” a possible advertising slogan or simply words to live by at a time when sports were of increasing popular interest. > > Katherine Ware, *László Moholy-Nagy*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 56. © 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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