Main entry:

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946, author.

Title & Author:

Painting, photography, film / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ; with a note by Hans M. Wingler and a postscript by Otto Stelzer ; translated by Janet Seligman.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1969]
©1969

Description:

150 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

MIT fine arts ; 220

Notes:
English translation originally published: London: Lund Humphries, 1969.
"First MIT Press paperback edition, October 1973"--Title page verso.
Introduction -- From painting with pigment to light-displays projected with a reflector -- Problems of terminology in optical composition -- On the objective and the non-objective -- Easel painting, architecture and 'Gesamtkunstwerk' -- Static and kinetic optical composition -- Domestic pinacotheca -- Photography -- Production, reproduction -- Photography without camera. The 'photogram' -- The future of the photographic process -- Typophoto -- Simultaneous or poly-cinema -- On technical possibilities and demands -- Illustrations (some with explanations) -- Dynamic of the Metropolis: Sketch for a film, also typophoto / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- List of illustrations -- Sources of the typophotos of 'Dynamic of the Metropolis' -- Editor's note / H. M. Wingler -- Postscript: Otto Stelzer: Moholy-Nagy and his vision / Otto Stelzer.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

This translation of the original 1925-27 Moholy-Nagy book presents his innovative Rayographs made without a camera, the creative X-rays, super-wide-angle fisheye pictures, double prints, collages, montages, and the Bauhaus artist's thoughts on the interrelationship of type, audio, and visual perception.

ISBN:

0262130580 (hardcover)
9780262130585 (hardcover)
026263046X (paperback)
9780262630467 (paperback)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Art and photography.
Form (Aesthetics)
Photographie artistique.
Art et photographie.
Forme (Esthétique)
art photography.
form (composition concepts)
format.
form (general concept)

Form/genre:

Writings.
Facsimiles (reproductions)
photobooks.
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Wingler, Hans Maria, editor.
Stelzer, Otto, writer of supplementary textual content.
Seligman, Janet, translator.
MIT Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 142819
Call No.: ND37.M698.A35 1973
Status: Available