Fotogramm, Laszlo and Lucia
Photograph
20th century (made), 1922-1926 (made)
20th century (made), 1922-1926 (made)
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Photograph
Object details
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| Title | Fotogramm, Laszlo and Lucia (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin Silver print |
| Brief description | 20thC; Moholy-Nagy Lazslo, Fotogramm,László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy, c.1922-26 |
| Physical description | Photograph |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Stamped Nr 75975 |
| Gallery label | Cameraless Photography
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946)
Untitled
1926, printed 1973
Gelatin silver print
35 x 26.2 cm
Museum no. Circ.224-1974
This two-faced figure is a double portrait showing the artist on the right and the photographer Lucia, his first wife, on the left. Taking it in turns to lay their heads on the photographic paper they created this image among several others that are thought to be the earliest surviving self-portrait photograms. |
| Credit line | Acquired from Nigel Greenwood Inc, London in 1974 |
| Object history | This is the first print of the third portfolio: Fotogramme 1922-1926. The edition number is the same – 30/50 as the previous two sets, and the photographs are printed and published in the same way. Moholy-Nagy invented the word Photogram to describe prints made by placing objects or the shadows of objects directly on to photographic paper and then printing the results: thus these photograms are reproductions of a single original in each case, as with the collages in the first portfolio. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.224-1974 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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