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László Moholy-Nagy: Color in Transparency
Photographic Experiments in Color, 1934–1946
Edited by Jeannine Fiedler and Hattula Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was one of the most ardent seekers of the ‘New Vision’ among the early twentiethcentury
avant-garde artists. His ongoing preoccupation with the phenomenon of light defined all periods of his artistic
creativity, and his strength lay in his effortless skill translating light and spatial dimensions from one medium to another.
In the early 1930s the first color processes became widely available. After he had mastered the different fields of
black/white photography, it was only to be expected that Moholy would focus his creative energy on the next hot issue
among photographers. Color photography proved to be one of Moholy’s most important media of artistic production,
but until now, with a few exceptions, his work in the field of color photography is unknown.
This book presents 100 works – advertisements, portraits, urban views, New Bauhaus studies, and abstract
compositions – from the early days of Moholy’s experimentation with color in 1934 until his death in 1946. A foreword
by Hattula Moholy-Nagy, an introductory essay and extended captions by Jeannine Fiedler, a chronology and
bibliography will present the history of color photography and the significance of these works in Moholy’s own oeuvre.
Jeannine Fiedler, born in 1957, is an art historian and critic. She was guest curator at the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, and
has written and edited a number of books, including Paul Outerbridge, Jr (1993), Social Utopias of the Twenties
(1995), Bauhaus (1999), László Moholy-Nagy. 55 photos (2001).
Hattula Moholy-Nagy, born in 1933, is an archaeologist and the founder of The Moholy-Nagy Foundation. Her articles
on Moholy-Nagy include “Chicagói Emlékek” (Chicago Memories) (1995), “Moholy-Nagy: The Late Photography/Die
späte Photographie” (1997), “László Moholy-Nagy: An Appreciation” (2002), and “László Moholy-Nagy: Notes on a
Life in Motion” (2004).
Co-published with Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin.
Exhibition: Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, June 21 to September 4, 2006, and touring venues.
László Moholy-Nagy: Color in Transparency
Photographic Experiments in Color, 1934–1946
Edited by Jeannine Fiedler and Hattula Moholy-Nagy
Essay by Jeannine Fiedler
and a foreword by Hattula Moholy-Nagy
Book design by Sarah Winter and Jeannine Fiedler
248 pages with 100 color plates
8.25 x 11.75 in. / 21 x 30 cm
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
US $ 65.00 / £ 35.00 / R 49.00
ISBN 3-86521-293-X
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-293-1
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