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"In 1947, while resident in New York, the New Zealand-born artist Len Lye made about 48 cameraless photographic portraits of friends and acquaintances... Lye's subjects included notable artists such as Joan Miro, Hans Richter and Georgia O'Keeffe, the architect Le Corbusier, the jazz musician Baby Dodds, the scientist Nina Bull, and the writer W.H. Auden. But they also included a baby and a young woman who remain unnamed, Lye's new partner Ann Hindle, and Albert Bishop, a plumber who had come to do some repairs... This exhibition presents 26 of these profile portraits..."--Introduction.