Lucia Moholy: exposures

Abstract

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.

Contents

Foreword Kunsthalle Praha / Ivana Goossen -- Foreword Fotostiftung Schweiz / Teresa Gruber -- Preface : Lucia Moholy, Jan Tichy : A History of Continuity / Christelle Havranek -- Introduction : Beginning at the End : Lucia Moholy in the 1980s / Jordan Troeller -- Shadows on Rock and Water / Meghan Forbes -- Journeying in Yugoslavia / Meghan Forbes -- Longing for the Unknown : Lucia Moholy's Prague Origins / Hana Buddeus -- The German Youth Movement Activist / Oliver A. I. Botar -- Pedagogy and Bodywork : Portraits of Heinrich Jacoby and Elsa Gindler / Oliver A. I. Botar -- Lucia Moholy’s Modern History of Photography / Steffen Siegel -- The Bauhaus Negatives / Robin Schuldenfrei -- Products of Objectivity / Robin Schuldenfrei -- Lucy Moholy's Information Economies / Annie Bourneuf -- Lucia Moholy and the Isotype Institute / Michelle Henning -- From Bauhaus to Bloomsbury / Michelle Henning -- An Unpublished Chapter in Memory : Lucia Moholy's “Notes from Turkey” / Özge Baykan Calafato -- Wartime Absurdities / Meghan Forbes -- Marginal Notes on Moholy-Nagy / Meghan Forbes -- Meeting Lucia Moholy : A Personal Reconstruction / Rolf Sachsse -- Interview with Lucia Moholy / Rolf Sachsse -- Interview with Jan Tichy / Christelle Havranek -- Chronology -- Selected Bibliography -- Biographies of Contributors -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Editorial Note.