LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY. Fotogramm

László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946)

Fotogramm

Fotogramm. Artist: László Moholy-Nagy (American (born Hungary), Borsod 1895-1946 Chicago, Illinois). Dimensions: 23.9 x 17.9 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.). Date: 1926. 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.

100 años de la Bauhaus

Gelatin silver print

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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27.1 x 35.6 cm | 10.7 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)