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Eiffel Tower, Paris

1925

László Moholy-Nagy

(American, 1895–1946)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 28.1 x 21.1 cm (11 1/16 x 8 5/16 in.); Paper: 29.2 x 21 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1997.144
Copyright
© Estate of László Moholy-Nagy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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According to László Moholy-Nagy, photography offered an entirely new way of seeing, an “unprejudiced optical view.”

Description

Moholy’s Eiffel Tower is disorienting, framed to eliminate any horizon line or context. Smaller, lighter cameras that appeared in the 1920s encouraged odd vantage points such as bird’s- and worm’s-eye views. Moholy and others employed them to shock viewers into understanding the new relationship between man and space exemplified by the airplane and skyscraping structures like the Eiffel Tower.
Black-and-white photograph completely filled with the crossing, industrial metal structure of the interior of the Eiffel Tower. The overarching structure of the strips cuts from the lower left to the upper right, connected by by horizontal bars receding into the distance and further intersected with "x" and triangular shaped zig-zagging metal.

Eiffel Tower, Paris

1925

László Moholy-Nagy

(American, 1895–1946)
America

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