This document provides descriptions of 59 photographs from the early 20th century. The photographs cover a wide range of styles and subjects, including photomontages, portraits, landscapes, scientific images, advertising photographs, and documentary images. Many of the photographs are attributed to influential photographers and artists from the modernist era such as Moholy-Nagy, Kertész, Weston, and Man Ray. The photographs originate from collections around the world and represent a variety of photographic techniques including gelatin silver prints, photograms, and rayographs.

1. 8.0 El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1924. Photomontage. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.

2. 8.1 Gustav Klutsis, Electrification of the Entire Country, 1920.
Vintage gelatin silver print. Merrill C. Berman Collection, New
York, copy photo by Jim Frank.

3. 8.2 Martin Munkacsi, Cover of Berliner Illustrirte
Zeitung, July 21, 1929. Bildarchiv Preussicher
Kulturbestitz, Berlin.

4. 8.3 Erich Salomon, Hague Conference, January 3-20, 1930. Gelatin silver print. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Berlin.

5. 8.4 Tom Howard, Dead! (Exection of Ruth Snyder),
front cover of Daily News, January 13, 1928. Daily
News, New York.

6. 8.5 Photographer Unknown, “Zeppelin Blast Kills
Thirty-Five,” from Los Angeles Times, Friday, May 7,
1937. Newsprint.

7. 8.6 El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1924. Photomontage. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.

8. 8.7 Raoul Hausmann, Tatlin at Home, 1920. Collage
(destroyed). Statens Konstmuseet, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm.

9. 8.8 Aleksandr Rodchenko, Untitled, 1923, to
accompany Maiakovskii’s poem “Pro Ito” (“About
This”). Photomontage. Rodchenko Archives, Moscow.

10. 8.9 Aleksandr Rodchenko, Untitled (Walking figure), 1928. Gelatin silver print. Rodchenko Archives, Moscow.

11. 8.10 Christian Schad, Schadograph 24b, c. 1920.
Gelatin silver print.

12. 8.11 Hannah Höch, Schnitt mit dem
Küchenmesser Dada durch die letzte weimarer
Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands (Cut with
the Kitchen Knife Dada through the last Weimar
Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany), 1919.
Photomontage. Nationalgalerie Staatliche
Museen, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

13. 8.12 Hannah Höch, Denkmal I: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum
(Monument 1: From an Ethnographic Museum), 1924. Collage,
photomontage. Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst,
Photographie und Architektur, Berlin.

14. 8.13 George Grosz & John Heartfield, Leben und Treiben in Universal City um 12 Uhr 5 Mittages (Life and Activity in the
Universal City at Five Past Twelve), 1919. Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

15. 8.14 László Moholy-Nagy & Lucy Moholy,
Photogram, 1924. Gelatin silver print. Museum
Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.

16. 8.15 Herbert Bayer, Cover of Bauhaus 1, 1928. From
a photomontage. Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin.

17. 8.16 Germaine Krull, Cover of Métal, 1928.
Collotype. Museum Folkwang Fotografische
Sammlung, Esse, Germany.

18. 8.17 Jaroslav Rössler, Untitled,
1931. Museum of Decorative
Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.

19. 8.18 Jaromír Funke, Abstract Photo, 1928-29.
Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic.

20. 8.19 Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919. Color reproduction of
Mona Lisa altered with a pencil. Private collection.

21. 8.20 Max Ernst & Hans Arp, Physiomythological Diluvian Picture, 1920. Collage with fragments of a photograph,
gouache, pencil, pen and ink on paper laid on card. Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany.

22. 8.21 Morton Schamberg, Untitled
(Cityscape), 1917. Vintage gelatin silver
print. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas,
Missouri.

23. 8.22 Charles Sheeler, Industry, 1932. Gelatin silver prints (triptych). Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

24. 8.23 Man Ray, Abstract Composition, 1921-28. Rayograph. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

25. 8.24 Brassaï (Gyula Halász), Sculpture involontaire (Involuntary sculpture), 1933, Courtesy Edwynn Houk
Gallery, New York.

26. 8.25 Man Ray, Untitled, from Minotaure, 1933-35. Silver print. Michael Senft Collection, East Hampton, New
York.

27. 8.26 Hans Bellmer, Doll (La Poupée), 1935. Gelatin silver print with applied color. George Eastman House, Rochester,
New York.

28. 8.27 Raoul Ubac, La Conciliabule, 1938. Brûlage
print. Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris.

29. 8.28 Dora Maar, Père Ubu, 1936. Gelatin silver print.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

30. 8.29 Eugène Atget, Café, Avenue de la Grande-Armée, 1924-25. Silver print from glass negative. Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York.

31. 8.30 Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait, 1928. Gelatin
silver print. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes,
France.

32. 8.31 Brassaï (Gyula Halász), “Bijou” of
Montmartre, from Paris de nuit (Paris by Night), c.
1933. Gelatin silver print. David H. McAlpin Fund.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.

33. 8.32 André Kertész, Distortion #102, 1933. Gelatin
silver print. Gift of Graham Nash. San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.

34. 8.33 André Kertész, Meudon, 1928. Gelatin silver
print. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

35. 8.34 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. Lazare,
1932. Gelatin silver print.

36. 8.35 Margaret Watkins, Advertisement for
Myer’s Gloves, 1920s. Gelatin silver print. J.
Mulholland Collection, Glasgow, Scotland.

37. 8.36 Paul Outerbridge, Ide Collar, 1922.
Platinum print. Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York.

38. 8.37 Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp Dressed as Rrose
Sélavy, 1924. Gelatin silver print. Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.

39. 8.38 Aleksandr Rodchenko, Advertisement for baby
pacifiers, 1923. Rodchenko Archives, Moscow.

40. 8.39 László Moholy-Nagy, Goerz, 1925. Gelatin silver
print. George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

41. 8.40 Maurice Tabard, Publicité Dunhill, 1930.
Gelatin silver print. Musée National d’Art
Moderne, Centre Beaubourg, Paris.

42. 8.41 Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, 1929.

43. 8.42 Jan Tschichold, “Film und Foto” exhibition,
Stuttgart, 1929. Poster. Stadtmuseum, Stuttgart,
Germany.

44. 8.43 August Sander, Boxers Paul Roderstein and Hein Heese,
Cologne, 1929. Gelatin silver print. August Sander Archive,
Cologne, Germany.

45. 8.44 Hans Finsler, Untitled (Toothpaste and brush), c.
1930. Gelatin silver print. San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, California.

46. Albert Renger-Patzsch, Snake Head, 1927. Gelatin silver print. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection,
Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005.

47. 8.46 foto ringl + pit, Petrole Hahn Advertising, Berlin, 1931. Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin.

48. 8.47 Herbert Bayer, Brochure for the exhibition “Deutschland”, Berlin, 1936.

49. 8.48 Alexander Libermann, “In Germany, toward a
mass army,” from Vu, April 25, 1934. Neogravure.
Victoria and Albert Museum (Library), London.

50. 8.49 George Hoyningen-Huene, Schiaparelli
Beachwear, 1930, from Harper’s Bazaar, 1935.
Gelatin silver print. Victoria and Albert
Museum, London.

51. 8.50 Horst P. Horst, Untitled, 1936. Victoria and
Albert Museum, London.

52. 8.51 Lejaren À Hiller, Étienne Gourmelen, c.
1933, from Surgery through the Ages, 1933.
Gelatin Silver print. George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York.

53. 8.52 Willard van Dyke, Cement Works, Monolith,
California, 1931. Gelatin silver print. Private
collection.

54. 8.53 Imogen Cunningham, Banana Plant, c. 1929.
Gelatin silver print. Museum purchase, George
Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

55. 8.54 Imogen Cunningham,
Irene “Bobby” Libarry, from
her book After 90, 1976.
Gelatin silver print. © The
Imogen Cunningham Trust,
San Francisco, California.

56. 8.55 Ansel Adams, Valley View, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1935. Gelatin silver print. Collection Center for
Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

57. 8.56 Toyo Miyatake, Three Boys Playing Near a Barbed-Wire Fence, Manzanar Relocation Center, c. 1943.

58. 8.57 Tina Modotti, Workers, Mexico, c. 1926-30. Gelatin silver print. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

59. 8.58 Edward Weston, Excusado, Mexico, 1925.
Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona.

60. 8.59 Edward Weston, Nude, 1934. Gelatin silver
print. Center for Creative Photography, University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.