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LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY
FISHHEADS ON A PLATE, 1931

Silver gelatin print
Image dimensions 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Edition 1/30

ESTIMATE $2,000 - $2,500

László Moholy-Nagy was born in Hungary in 1895 and lived throughout Europe before becoming the director of the Design School in Chicago in 1937, where he continued to produce innovative projects and books until his death in 1946. A significant figure in the Weimar Bauhaus period, he was a pioneering innovator who worked with various mediums, including painting, sculpture, film and photography. He was also a graphic and stage designer, and an influential writer and teacher who published theories about perception. Considered one of the most inventive artists of the 1920s and 30s, his experimental practices included cameraless photography (photograms), stop-action photography, time exposures, negative imagery, microscopic photography, photomontage and colour photography in slide form. He understood the camera as a new instrument of vision and an essential form of visual communication in the modern world.This photograph of fishheads on a plate from 1931 is typical of Moholy's use of extreme and unconventional camera viewpoints that distort perspective. Favouring a bird's eye view, his images are often spatially ambiguous.
The rich blacks and whites of this gelatin silver print emphasize the dynamics of light and shadow. This photograph
was reproduced in the definitive book: Moholy-Nagy: Photographs and Photograms by the scholar Andreas Haus, published in 1980.

Considered one of the major modernist photographers, Moholy-Nagy's experimental photography and prescient theories about technology have become increasingly relevant. Exhibitions and publications on his ideas and artworks abound, most recently Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World that toured to the Whitney Museum, Tate Modern and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany and Colour in Transparency produced by the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin.