PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY FILM

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY FILM. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1969. First English-language edition. Quarto. Black cloth stamped in white. Photographically printed dust jacket. 150 pp. 100 black and white photographs. Jacket nicked along top edge. A near fine copy.

7.25 x 10 hardcover book with 150 pages and 100 black and white photographs. English language version of the revised Bauhausbucher 8 from 1927, and retains as much of Moholy-Nagy's original typography as possible. Translated By Janet Seligman.

From the book: "The layout of the pages designed by Moholy-Nagy in 1927 -- bold sans-serif captions surrounded by lots of white space; compositions composed of arrows, dots, photographs, and heavy ruled lines -- is much more like a movie storyboard or a musical score. It conveys a suggestion of imploding optical and retinal phenomena, much like driving down the Los Angeles Freeway at 70 mph or jolting through Philadelphia on the Metroliner . . . This edition is a translation and facsimile of the second German edition of 'Malerei, Fotographie, Film' published in 1927 by the Bauhaus Press; and it serves as a valuable reminder of the graphic design pioneered at the Bauhaus by Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer . . ."

"Gropius had invited the twenty-eight-year-old Hungarian phenom onto the Bauhaus faculty in 1923, and 'Malerei Fotografie Film' is Moholy-s first attempt to lay out his entire theory and program for photography, and ultimately, for the transformation of human vision.. The book's bold typography and design enacted Moholy's concept of 'typofoto,' involving the integration of type and images, which was further elaborated in his two later theoretical works, 'Von Material zu Architektur'..and 'Vision in Motion'. . ." [Roth].

Includes phhotography by Alfred Steiglitz, Albert Renger-Pazsch, L. Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Lucia Moholy, Hannah Hoch and others.

Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.

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