Marseilles, Port View (Old Harbour)

Marseilles, Port View (Old Harbour)

Photograph

László Moholy-Nagy

Maker
American, b. Hungary, 1895–1946

Marseilles, Port View (Old Harbour)

Marseille, 1929


1929
Gelatin silver print
Image: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (50.5 × 40.3 cm)
Matted: 28 1/8 × 22 1/16 in. (71.5 × 56 cm)
Purchase with funds from Eastman Kodak Company, 1956
1981.2163.0043
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink on verso: Photo L. Moholy=Nagy / Marseille Port View (Old Harbour) 1929
Inscribed in pencil on verso: An exciting rythm of repetition obtained by a fleet of boats in the old harbor ('vieux port') of Marseille. / Taken from the highest point of the "Pont Transbordeur" (lined out) / 11/ E 1291
Inscribed on verso: [various graphic arts notations]
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