László Moholy-Nagy

by Jeannine Fiedler, László Moholy-Nagy (Photographer)

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a major innovator of the avant-garde and one of the twentieth century's most important art theoreticians. He experimented ceaselessly with new ways of seeing - using photo-montages, photograms, film and kinetic sculpture - and proposed the camera as a way of complementing and perfecting the human eye. Other artists in this series Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin

Genres: Photography, Art

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First published January 5, 2001