László Moholy-Nagy
Untitled

ArtistAmerican, born Hungary, 1895–1946
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled
  • from the Giedion Portfolio (Giedion-Mappe)
Date1925, printed 1929
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 × 11 13/16 in. (40 × 30 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Charitable Lead Trust, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2012.633
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


As a professor at the Bauhaus and in his own art practice in various media, László Moholy-Nagy felt unfettered by traditional materials and practices. Perhaps his lack of formal training in photography was precisely what led him to use the camera in novel ways and to explore the plasticity of the medium divorced from the camera altogether. He was among the first in the modern era to experiment with photo-grams—pictures made by placing an object on photographic paper and exposing it to light, recording a trace of the object’s form that was often unpredictable and unrepeatable, unrecognizable and abstract.



ProvenanceManfred Heiting, purchased between 1996–1998; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Exhibition History"Moholy-Nagy: Future Present," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 10–September 7, 2016; Art Institute of Chicago, October 2, 2016–January 3, 2017; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 12–June 18, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed, verso, lower right: L Moholy-Nagy
Signed, verso, lower right: L Moholy-Nagy

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