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Avant-Garde Graphics: 1918-34
Lutz Becker, Richard Hollis, ...

Hayward Gallery, 2005

Avant-garde artists of the 1920s and 30s discovered a new role, that of designers for the printing industry--what is today known as graphic design. As illustrated by the numerous stunning, high quality, color reproductions in this book, designers stripped away printers' ornaments and drawn illustrations; they no longer created captions on the page; and they brought in abstract, geometrical forms, photographs, plain typefaces and simple ...

Painting, Photography, and Film
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The MIT Press, 1969

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.

In Focus: Andre Kertesz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Man Ray: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum Boxed Set ...
Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Andre Kertesz

Getty Publications, 1999

Three volumes from the Getty Museum's popular In Focus series are packaged together here, offering a handsome set of books on these important photographers: Andre Kertesz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Man Ray. All born in Europe, each photographer journeyed to the United States and made important contributions to the medium. The volume on Kertesz presents the Getty Museum's holdings of his work from his Budapest, Paris, and New York periods, while ...

The New Vision: Fundamentals of Bauhaus Design, Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (Dover Books on Art, ...

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Dover Publications, 2005

Of interest to designers and non-designers
This book, considered an important work by many, was out of print for some years. Dover has recently republished it which is great for students of design. It's easy to read and points to the rich ideas Moholy-Nagy wanted to share with the world.

Malerei, Fotografie, Film.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Mann (Gebr.), Berlin, 1997

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Color in Transparency

Steidl/Bauhaus-Archiv, 2006

Among the early twentieth-century?s avant-garde, Hungarian-born photographer László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was one of the most ardent seekers of the "New Vision." His preoccupation with the phenomenon of light was a defining influence on every period of his work, and one of his great strengths lay in his effortless skill in translating light and spatial dimensions from one medium to another. By the time the first color photographic processes ...

In Focus: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy : Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus (J. Paul Getty Museum))
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Getty Publications, 1995

Hungarian born Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was influential not only as a photographer but also as a filmmaker, teacher, and painter. He taught at the Bauhaus in Germany and, after fleeing the Nazi regime, settled in Chicago, where he founded the Institute of Design. He pioneered the photomontage and created the camera-less medium of the "photogram." This book, the second in the Getty's In Focus series, features sixty reproductions from the Getty's ...

The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

George Wittenborn, 1947

'The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist'' by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Design and typography by Paul Rand. New York: Wittenborn: 1947. The Documents of Modern Art Number Three, letterpress edition, edited by Robert Motherwell. and visually expresses Moholy-Nagys Bauhaus modernist vision through art, architecture, sculpture, displays, movie sets, furniture, etc.