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Florence Henri, Paris

Lucia Moholy (née Schultz) (English (born in Prague, active in Germany), 1894–1989)
1927

Medium/Technique Photograph, gelatin silver print
Dimensions Sheet: 40.32 x 29.84 cm (15 7/8 x 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Sophie M. Friedman Fund
Accession Number1986.249
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs
Lucia Moholy, wife of László Moholy-Nagy, was the most important woman photographer at the Bauhaus during the 1920s, and her example influenced several other young women there to experiment with the medium. She is best known for her portraits, such as this one of her student Florence Henri, which she described as related to her architectural and product photography in their rigorously objective approach. Moholy would typically take headshots of her subjects from several different angles-strictly frontal, profile, obliquely from above, and three-quarter view-against plain backgrounds, in this case perfectly capturing the graphic contours of Henri's black cap of hair and white powdered face.

Descriptionvintage print
InscriptionsOn verso in pen: signature and title; stamped: FOTO LUCIA MOHOLY BERLIN, COPYRIGHT BY LUCIA MOHOLY, 30 MECKLENBURGH SQUARE, LONDON, W. C. 1
ProvenancePrakapas Gallery, New York; purchased June 1986.
Copyright© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn