Moholy Album

It is largely thanks to Lßszl¾ Moholy-NagyÆs artistic and journalistic efforts that photography became an integral part of modern artistic creation, starting in the 1920s. His photograms are icons of the medium, and yet his photographic oeuvre has never been comprehensively published. For the first time, Moholy-NagyÆs daughter Hattula has now granted full access to her fatherÆs photographic archive and made the material available for publication.

The album at hand presents contact sheets that Moholy-Nagy made on the go between Amsterdam, London and Chicago. With more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Moholy-NagyÆs photographic prolificacy from its peak in the mid to late 1920s until the artistÆs immigration to the US in 1937. Based on recent archival findings, the book brings together diverse aspects of his work and is a thorough reassessment of Moholy-Nagy the photographer.

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László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was born in Bácsborsód, Hungary. After military service in World War I and completing a law degree, Moholy-Nagy took up painting and moved to Berlin. In 1923 he was appointed by Walter Gropius to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. Following an active intermediate period of personal design work, films and exhibitions in Berlin beginning in 1928, he immigrated to the US and founded the New Bauhaus–American School of Design in Chicago in 1937. In his short lifetime, Moholy-Nagy published numerous books and participated in many exhibitions, both group and one-man shows.

Born in 1957, Jeannine Fiedler works in Berlin as an art and film historian. Fiedler studied theatre, art history and journalism at the Freie Universität Berlin, and has written and lectured widely on László Moholy-Nagy. In 2001 Fiedler published László Moholy-Nagy, and in 2006 she curated “László Moholy- Nagy. Color in Transparency. Photographic Experiments in Color 1934–1946” at the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin.