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LUCIA MOHOLY - OLIVER A I BOTAR ANNIE BOURNEUF ...

A prolific writer  photographer  portraitist  and documentarian  Lucia Moholy defies
categorization. She was as active in avant-garde circles as she was in the field of information
science  advancing an expansive understanding of visual reproduction.  While previous
publications on Moholy have limited her accomplishments to the five years she spent at the
Bauhaus  Lucia Moholy: Exposures presents the full breadth of her writings and photographs for
the first time. Extensive essays drawing on new archival discoveries offer insights into her
early life in turn-of-the-century Prague  her involvement in the radical social movements of
the 1920s in Weimar Germany  her emigration to London  where colleagues and friends included
members of the Bloomsbury Group as well as her wartime involvement with microfilm and
scientific documentation and her work in the Middle East on behalf of UNESCO.  Acknowledging
her reception by contemporary artists such as Jan Tichý  the publication demonstrates how
Moholy's interdisciplinary approach to photography anticipated the medium's post-analogue
present. LUCIA MOHOLYs (1894-1989) photographs in the aesthetics of the New Objectivity
continue to shape the international reception of the Bauhaus to this day. After studying art
history and philosophy in her native Prague  she worked as an editor before arriving at the
Bauhaus with her husband László Moholy-Nagy in 1923. Her bestselling book A Hundred Years of
Photography 1839-1939 was highly influential for the recognition of the medium as an art form.
In 1959 she settled in Switzerland  where she continued to work as an art critic.

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