László Moholy-Nagy. Die beispiellose Fotografie
Steffen Siegel ist Professor für Theorie und Geschichte der Fotografie an der Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen. Bernd Stiegler ist Professor für Professor für Neuere Deutsche Literatur im medialen Kontext an der Universität Konstanz.
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Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was not only one of the most important photographers of the classical modernist period but also regularly published critical texts on photography from the early 1920s on. In his essays, polemics, and reviews Moholy-Nagy delineated photography as the leading medium of the modern age. His broad spread of writings on photography are brought together in their entirety for the first time in this volume: a total of thirty- eight shorter articles and reprints of his two books Painting, Photography, Film and 60 Photos. From his years as a Bauhaus teacher in Dessau and his time as a freelance designer in Berlin, Amsterdam, and London to his professorship at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, Moholy-Nagy developed a groundbreaking aesthetic. With photography as a starting point, this aesthetic is visualized here as an original theory of modernity.
Steffen Siegel is professor of the theory and history of photography at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Bernd Stiegler is professor of modern German literature with a focus on media contexts at the University of Konstanz.