Architect, designer, and photographer Katt Both studied architecture from 1925 to 1928 at the Bauhaus, a revolutionary art and design school in Dessau, Germany. In addition to architecture, the Bauhaus offered workshops in other fine art and craft mediums, including photography. While Both did not study photography while attending the Bauhaus, her self-taught photographic practice was greatly influenced by its aesthetic philosophies and was encouraged by the pioneering avant-garde photographer László Moholy-Nagy. Both’s image of playing cards and chips emphasizes the abstract possibilities of everyday objects and materials and employs a bird’s-eye view in characteristically Bauhaus fashion.