Franz Roh

Lucia Moholy British, born Austria-Hungary

Not on view

Roh was an art historian and a major apologist for the new vision. His trilingual book Foto-Auge (1929), published in the context of the Film und Foto exhibition, remains a most cogent summation of it. Lucia Moholy portrays him with eyes closed behind rimless glasses, as if to suggest the incompatibility of normal sight with insight. The portrait perfectly illustrated Andre Breton's 1925 statement: "...with closed eyes it is broad daylight to my silent contemplation."

Franz Roh, Lucia Moholy (British (born Austria-Hungary), 1894–1989), Gelatin silver print

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