Curiously, Mr. Benson pays tribute to Richter's role in the landmark 1929 German exhibition"Film und Foto" with a room of Modernist photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch, Imogen Cunningham and others.
The Vitra exhibition starts with a detailed biographical display and regular showings of previously unseen film footage shot by Nathaniel Kahn, Louis's son and the director of "My Architect, " the movie about his father.