Untitled, 1937-1944
László Moholy-Nagyexpand_more
Gelatin silver printexpand_more
Gift of Ralph Rapson and the Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison Fundexpand_more 99.9
Not on Viewexpand_more
László Moholy-Nagy was a leading figure of the Bauhaus, a modern art and design school founded by the architect Walter Gropius, as well as being a prominent member of the related New Objectivity Movement. Moholy-Nagy worked as a painter, graphic artist, photographer, and teacher, and he produced this image without a camera by arranging objects directly on a sheet of photo paper and exposing it to light. The resulting photogram is a negative shadow image with tonal variations. Although this process was used by photographers in the 1800s and popularized as a children’s amusement, 20th-century avant-garde artists revived it as a way to embrace abstraction and explore the optical properties of light.
Details
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist Life
- American (born Hungary), 1895–1946
- Role
- Photographer
- Accession Number
- 99.9
- Curator Approved
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