Chefs-d'oeuvre photographiques du Moma. La collection Thomas Walther. Catalogue A photographer of Russian origin

A photographer of Russian origin

but by crossing paths with Romanticism

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The very fact that Heraclitus could have interested the Romans constitutes a considerable fact for the study of the acculturation of philosophy to a world other than the one in which it was born

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Chefs-d'oeuvre photographiques du Moma. La collection Thomas Walther. Catalogue A photographer of Russian originPresented at the Jeu de Paume, the Thomas Walther Collection is one of the most important acquisitions of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This exceptional photographic collection, which brings together nearly 350 photographs, reflects a key moment in the history of the discipline, through some one hundred emblematic figures of the European avant garde of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Andr