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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Tom May

She wrote the history of photography. Then they cruelly erased her from it

Lucia Moholy with the cover and pages of her book on the history of photography.

There's a particular species of injustice in photography's past, where the person behind the camera (often a woman) did the work while someone else took the credit. But even by those depressing standards, what happened to Lucia Moholy ranks as extraordinary.

Here was a photographer so skilled and so important that her images defined how the world came to see the Bauhaus, one of the most influential art schools in history. Yet for decades, those images circulated without her name attached to them.

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