Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Artist/Culture
Herbert Bayer
(American, born Austria, 1900–1985)
Date1927
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7.4 x 4.7 cm (2 15/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineStoddard Acquisition Fund
Terms
Object number1987.99
Label TextBayer studied with the great professors of the Staatliches Bauhaus, including Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. When the academy moved to Dessau in 1925, he became head of its new Printing and Advertising Workshop. His friend and colleague Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) introduced him to photography.
Unlike the straight or “objective” photography practiced by his contemporaries August Sander and Hugo Erfurth, Bayer endorsed the use of unusual perspectives, multiple exposures, and darkroom experimentation. Likewise Moholy-Nagy used an innovative photography process called a photogram. In a photogram, objects are placed on top of light sensitive paper; the resulting image looks like a gray or bluish x-ray of the articles used.
ProvenancePurchase from Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, ILOn View
Not on view
