László Moholy-Nagy

A major innovator of the avant-garde László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) stands as one of the twentieth century’s most important art theoreticians. He experimented ceaselessly with new ways of seeing – using photograms, photomontages, film and kinetic sculpture – and proposed the camera as a way of complementing and perfecting the human eye.


Phaidon 55s photography series introduces you to 9 masters of the medium. The men and women who invented, changed and revolutionized the language of everyday communication. Celebrating and acknowledging all styles and aspects of photography, each volume focuses on the life's work of an individual master and contains an informative introductory essay, a detailed chronology and 55 tappable-and-enlargeable key works accompanied by extended captions.

 

The Phaidon 55s photography series includes many of the world's most influential photographers - Guy Bourdin, Larry Fink, Gabriela Iturbide, André Kertész, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Daido Moriyama, Eadweard Muybridge and László Moholy-Nagy.