Photogram. Moholy-Nagy played a key role at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau as a painter, graphic artist, teacher, and impassioned advocate of avant-garde photography. He made this image without a camera by placing ordinary objects, including his hand and a paintbrush, on a sheet of photosensitized paper and exposing it to light. While this simple process was practiced by photography's founders in the nineteenth century and was later popularized as a child's amusement, avant-garde artists in the twentieth century revived the photogram technique as a means for exploring the optical and expressive properties of light. With this shadow-image of a hand and paintbrush, Moholy-Nagy ambitiously suggests that photography may incorporate, and even transcend, painting as the most vital medium of artistic expression in the modern age. 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. Edition: 1 of 1

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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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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Artist
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Blockchain
Ethereum
Token standard
ERC-721
Contract address
0xfb...2608
Token
3
Artist
László Moholy-Nagy
Book
Mende, Nicole (2009): Fotografische Experimente am frühen Bauhaus, in: Das Bauhaus kommt aus Weimar, hg. v. Ackermann, Ute; Bestgen, Ulrike. Berlin, München, S. 223–235.
Capture Medium
Ernemann camera
Copyright
© László Moholy-Nagy Estate 2022 All Rights Reserved
Edition
1 of 1
File Size
2748 × 4000 px (4.1 MB)
License
© László Moholy-Nagy Estate
Medium
Non-Fungible Token
Museum Collection
Guggenheim
Number of characters
1
Print Edition
Unique
Property
A man's face
Year
1926
Activity
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