Bauhaus Photography.

Moholy-Nagy took a series of photographs of the Berlin Radio Tower, a 450-foot-tall structure completed in 1926, employing aerial perspective. The series exemplifies the artist's belief that photography's primary function was to allow the viewer to engage with reality in previously impossible ways: allowing new levels of detail, new kinds of focus and coloring, perspective and scope. His ideas were expressed in an influential photography book published in 1927 suitably titled Neue Sehen ("New Vision") which, as Lynne Warren notes, explores "the perspectives offered by the modern city - its high-rises and dramatic scales, its geometries of contrast, its industrial patterns and texts".

The legacy of Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is among the most cherished in the lineage of photographic art, and he can be defined as a visionary whose radical experiments with photography entirely re-imagined the possibilities for the medium. Working in the early 20th century when photography was not considered a form of high art, Moholy-Nagy actively sought to break down boundaries and find new languages of photographic discourse. In doing so, he left behind an oeuvre of visual ideas that have provided artistic license to a century’s worth of photographers to experiment boldly beyond the conventional definitions of what photography is expected to be.

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

From the Radio Tower. Bird's Eye View. Berlin


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The legacy of Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is among the most cherished in the lineage of photographic art, and he can be defined as a visionary whose radical experiments with photography entirely re-imagined the possibilities for the medium. Working in the early 20th century when photography was not considered a form of high art, Moholy-Nagy actively sought to break down boundaries and find new languages of photographic discourse. In doing so, he left behind an oeuvre of visual ideas that have provided artistic license to a century’s worth of photographers to experiment boldly beyond the conventional definitions of what photography is expected to be.

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Blockchain
Ethereum
Token standard
ERC-721
Contract address
0xfb...2608
Token
12
Artist
László Moholy-Nagy
Book
Baker, Simon, and Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais, ed. Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art. London: Tate Publishing, 2018. p. 34.
Capture Medium
Ernemann camera
Copyright
© László Moholy-Nagy Estate 2022 All Rights Reserved
Edition
1 of 1
Exhibition history
Smith College Museum of Art. "Bauhaus Modern," September 26, 2008–December 17, 2008.
File Size
3012 × 4000 px (5.8 MB)
License
© László Moholy-Nagy Estate
Medium
Non-Fungible Token
Museum Collection
MOMA
Property
A radio tower
Year
1928
Activity
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