1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1895–1946 · HUNGARY
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Camera-less photograms, bird's-eye views and hard light treated as a material.
- Born
- 1895
- Died
- 1946
- Country
- Hungary
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1925Malerei, Fotografie, Film (Painting, Photography, Film)
- 1922Photograms
- 1930Light Prop for an Electric Stage
- 1947Vision in Motion
WHY THEY MATTER
Bauhaus teacher who named the New Vision in photography and founded the school that became Chicago's Institute of Design.
THE LIFE
Moholy-Nagy grew up in southern Hungary, studied law in Budapest and served as an artillery officer in the First World War. In Berlin his first wife, Lucia Moholy, introduced him to photograms, which he made by laying objects on light-sensitive paper. Walter Gropius brought him to the Bauhaus in 1923, where he co-taught the foundation course and wrote the book Painting, Photography, Film. After years in Amsterdam and London he moved to Chicago in 1937 to run the New Bauhaus, and he died there of leukaemia in 1946.
Also born in 1850–1899
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Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
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Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
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Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
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August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
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Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia