Author: Heyne, Renate
Title: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: The Photograms, Catalogue Raisonne
Description: Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2009. Hardcover. Red fabric casebound book. There is a dust jacket with white and red text down a black spine. Pages: (5), 6-311, (1). Pofusely illustrated with a majoity black-and-white images. "László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was one of the most internationally influential teachers at the Bauhaus. It is essentially owing to his effective artistic and journalistic skills that photography became an integral part of modern art in the twenties. He "discovered" the aesthetic possibilities of photograms in 1922 and continued his inventive work with them until 1943, turning them into icons of the medium that are still waiting to be fully brought to light. This catalogue raisonné, meticulously edited by photography expert Renate Heyne, is the first to feature all of the known works--close to 450 of them--in chronological order. Until now, most of them had only been published in history books and auction catalogues. This volume contains far more information than is usually found in a classic descriptive catalogue of works: it explains the artistic, technical, and biographical circumstances under which the photograms were created, examines them in relation to other areas of Moholy-Nagy's work, and analyzes them at length on the basis of selected pieces. A biography and a bibliography of the photograms round off this catalogue raisonné." Contents are as follows: Foreword / Hattula Moholy-Nagy -- Introduction / Floris M. Neusüss -- Light years of a life : the photogram in the aesthetic of László Moholy-Nagy / Herbert Molderings -- Light displays : relations so far unknown / Renate Heyne -- Remarks on the catalogue raisonné -- The Berlin photograms, 1922-1923. An early photogram and its "revaluation" ; Broom ; Flower photograms -- The Weimar photograms, 1923-1925. Malerei photographie film ; "Revaluations" -- The Dessau photograms, 1925-1928. Commercial photograms for Goerz ; A self-portrait photogram ; Title page of Qualität ; The light space modulator -- The Berlin photograms, 1928-1935. Photogram enlargements for exhibitions ; Photogram editions -- The London photograms, 1935-1937 -- The Chicago photograms, 1937-1943. How to make a photogram ; Molding the plastics ; Curriculum vitae of László Moholy-Nagy. VG/VG: Stamp on front free end page. Sticker and due date card on back free end page. Stamp on back pasted end page. Stamp on top text block.

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