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LIGHT WORKS will consist of nearly 40 works, including many that are well-known; such as Berenice Abbott’s (1898-
1991, American) avant-garde photograms of wave patterns made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
in the 1950s, and images by contemporaries Man Ray (1890-1976, American), Christian Schad (1894-1982, German)
and László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946, Hungarian), who experimented with the medium independently in the 1920s.
Schad had begun to create his ‘Schadographs’ by capturing litter and detritus from the streets of Zurich in 1918-19.
It is thought that Tristan Tzara, the …