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László Moholy-Nagy at the London Zoo: Animal Enclosures and the Unleashed Camera

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  1. Department of History, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

    Richard Hornsey

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  1. School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Michael Lawrence

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    Karen Lury

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Hornsey, R. (2016). László Moholy-Nagy at the London Zoo: Animal Enclosures and the Unleashed Camera. In: Lawrence, M., Lury, K. (eds) The Zoo and Screen Media. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0_11

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