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...“People don’t want to buy houses where criminals have lived and crimes have been committed but that does not hold true for objects,” Mr Nagy says....
...The project takes its inspiration from Bauhaus designers László Moholy-Nagy, Marianne Brandt and Wilhelm Wagenfeld as well as Bruno Munari’s photo essay “Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair” (1944)...
...Photograph: V&A...
...He followed Moholy-Nagy to London, then to the “new Bauhaus” in Chicago....
...taking in works as diverse as Fernand Léger’s parody of the mechanisation of daily life, “Ballet Mécanique” (1924), Dan Flavin’s soaring fluorescent tubes in homage to Russian Utopianism “ ‘Monument’ for V...
...Bauhaus exiles Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer lived here, as did Henry Moore and Agatha Christie....
...Elsbeth Juda had studied with Lucia Moholy-Nagy, wife of the pioneering artist and Bauhaus arch-priest of the photographic aesthetic, and she was fully aware of the importance of photography in European...
...V&A Photography Gallery Victoria & Albert Museum, London There are two overarching themes that unite the new annual display of photographs from the V&A’s permanent collection: the evolution of the medium...
...‘Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939’ is at the V&A, London, from April 6 to July 23. Tel 20 7942 2211...
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