MALEREI, FOTOGRAFIE, FILM
Bauhausbucher 8
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: MALEREI, FOTOGRAFIE, FILM [PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY FILM]. Munich: Albert Langen Verlag, 1927. Second edition (textually identical to the First; the only difference is the spelling of "Fotographie"). Textblock has been rebound in stiff, card covers with original dust jacket front and rear panels attached (with some loss). A good copy overall of this easily abused volume. Interior unmarked and very clean.

7.25 x 9 hardcover book with 140 pages and 100 b/w photographs. Includes photography by Alfred Steiglitz, Albert Renger-Pazsch, L. Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Lucia Moholy, Hannah Hoch and others.

Original cover design and interior typography by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy serves as a valuable reminder of the graphic design pioneered at the Bauhaus by Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer. 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.

"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).

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