Leda und der Schwan
date: label: Date made
content: 1926
name: label: maker
content: Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo
notes: label: Description
content: László Moholy-Nagy arrived at photography at a time when great experimentation was occurring with the medium of photography as well as other art forms. This particular style of photography was called photomontage, or as Moholy-Nagy preferred to call it, “fotoplastik.” Created similar to a collage, different pre-existing images were arranged to create a new composition. The new image was then photographed to create the final photomontage. This technique was associated with the Dadaists, an artistic group that was staunchly “anti-art.” Rather than creating an image by drawing or painting, they would rely on pre-existing images to create art. In this case, Moholy-Nagy combines seemingly unrelated objects together to create an intriguing final composition.
label: Description
content: Image Size: 42.8 x 23.3 cm.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.69.111
label: accession number
content: 282328
label: catalog number
content: 69.111
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gelatin silver print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gelatin silver (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42.8 cm x 23.3 cm; 16 27/32 in x 9 3/16 in