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After marrying in 1921, the couple moved to Weimar, Germany, where Moholy apprenticed at the Bauhaus, photographing architecture and experimenting with darkroom techniques, including this layered photogram of herself and her husband. Her career was marked by a lack of recognition, first by her husband and later by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, who took custody of her 560 glass-plate negatives when she fled Nazi persecution in 1933. Gropius reproduced her work without consent, leading to a legal dispute over ownership. In 1957 she recovered 230 negatives, though many were lost or damaged.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"<b>Cameraless Photography\n</b>\nLászló Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946)\r\nUntitled \r\n1926, printed 1973\r\nGelatin silver print\r\n35 x 26.2 cm\r\nMuseum no. Circ.224-1974\r\n\r\nThis two-faced figure is a double portrait showing the artist on the right and the photographer Lucia, his first wife, on the left. 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