The Modern Eye: Photographs 1917 - 1939

9 April - 16 May 2015

László Moholy-Nagy

From the Radio Tower, Berlin, 1928

Gelatin silver print on warm-toned, matte surface paper

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Printed c. 1928. Inscribed "Berlin" and with the photographer’s credit stamps on the verso.

Provenance

Provenance: László Moholy-Nagy, Berlin Moi Ver, gifted from the artist

Literature

László Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, (Chicago: Paul Theobold & Company, 1965), fig. 226; Krisztina Passuth, L. Moholy-Nagy, (London: Art Institute of Great Britain, 1980), pl. 79; Andreas Haus, Moholy-Nagy: Photographs and Photograms, (New York: Pantheon, 1980), pl. 40; Van Deren Coke, Avant-Garde Photography in Germany: 1919-1939, (New York: Pantheon, 1982), pl. 38; Daniel Wolf, et. al, The Art of Photography: 1839-1989, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), pl. 236; László Moholy-Nagy: Fruhe Photographien, (Berlin: Nishen, 1989), pl. 63; Richard Bolton (ed.), The Contest of Meaning, (Boston: The MIT Press, 1992), p. 92; Eleanor Hight, Picturing Modernism: Moholy-Nagy and Photography in Weimar Germany, (Boston: The MIT Press, 1995), pl. 61.