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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM WILL PRESENT ‘FOTO: MODERNITY IN CENTRAL EUROPE’

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NEW YORK CITY — “Foto: Modernity In Central Europe, 1918–1945” is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through January 13. The exhibition presents the work of approximately 100 individuals whose creations exemplify the possibilities for photography in central Europe between the two World Wars.

Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the exhibition is the first to bring together works by recognized masters such as El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy and Hannah Höch with those of lesser well-known contemporaries Karel Teige and Jaromír Funke, Stefan Themerson and Kazimierz Podsadecki, among others, thereby restoring a measure of historical perspective.

Through a series of thematic sections, this groundbreaking survey explores the uses and theory of modernist photography in 135 works and some 20 printed materials from the central European region. At the Guggenheim, the exhibition is organized by assistant curator Valerie Hillings.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is at 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street. For information, 212-423-3500 or www.guggenheim.org.