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- Lot 131
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) or his workshop Plexiglas sculpture. Inverted curve, 1946. Vintage silver print, credited "L. Moholy-Nagy," titled and dated in pencil by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy with handwritten annotations and cropping indications on verso. Image: 19 x 24.2 cm Sheet: 20 x 25.5 cm Bibliography: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, "Moholy-Nagy, the photographer" in Art d'aujourd'hui, series 2, no. 8, October 1951, p. 23. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) or workshop Plexiglas sculpture. Inverted curve, 1946. Vintage gelatin silver print, credited "L. Moholy-Nagy", titled and dated in pencil by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy with handwritten annotations and crop marks on verso. Image: 19 x 24,2 cm Sheet: 20 x 25,5 cm ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Between 1903 and 1905, the architect Ferdinand Arnodin designed the transporter bridge in Marseille, which allowed a suspended gondola to pass from one side of the port to the other without interrupting maritime traffic. This monumental steel structure, both celebrated and abhorred by his contemporaries, aroused a form of fascination in photographers of the New Vision such as Germaine Krull, Florence Henri or László Moholy-Nagy. Moholy-Nagy visited Marseille in 1928-1929 and took photographs and a film from the upper part of the transporter bridge. A true icon of the modern world in motion (about which Walter Benjamin wrote), this bridge was the place par excellence for plunging views, tight framing aimed at abstraction, and finally for exploring the optical possibilities offered by photography. László Moholy-Nagy's artistic program, which emphasized the study of the third dimension, new points of view and the effects of light on surfaces, found in the transporter bridge the ideal subject for this new photography. The period print presented here, of which we know no equivalent in this format, was used for the photogravure of the articles written by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and published in L'Art d'Aujourd'hui in 1951.
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