Photographer, writer and intellectual, Lucia Moholy (born Lucia Schulz, Karolinenthal, Prague, 1894 - Zollikon, Zurich, 1989) is a central figure in the 20th century history of photography, although the fame of her husband, the renowned artist László Moholy-Nagy, overshadowed her work for a long time.
Through her photographs, an exemple of the German avant-garde and of the Neue Sachlichkeit, it is possible to understand the complexity of her artistic personality and to reconstruct the role she played in the cultural history of the past century.
Chiasso, Museo m.a.x., November 2012 - January 2013
Contents
Germany in the 1920s: Towards a New Art
Antonello Negri
Life as Witness: Notes on the Photographic Works of Lucia Moholy between Still Life and Portraiture
Angela Madesani
The Twofold Gaze of Lucia Moholy between Photography and Life
Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini
A Hundred Years of Photography. A Critical Rereading of an Innovative Contribution
Angelo Maggi
László Moholy-Nagy and Photography as a Medium for “Writing and Drawing with Light”
Stefania Schibeci
PLATES
Bauhaus Buildings
Design Objects
Set Design
Portraits of the Bauhaus Masters
Yugoslavia
London Years
APPENDIX
Marginal Notes on Moholy-Nagy. Documentary Absurdites
Lucia Moholy
Biography
List of Exhibited Works
Bibliographical References edited by Sabrina Cerea
Julia Margaret Cameron, Florence Henri, Francesca Woodman
Ricevere l'avvenimento.
Due donne nei tornanti della storia
Art as Experience: The Teaching Methods of a Bauhaus Master
