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Blick vom Radioturm, Berlin
(1928); printed 1973
- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Measurements
- 24.9 × 19.0 cm (image) 26.2 × 20.3 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Berlin, Germany
- Inscription
- embossed (in image) l.r.: FOTO REPRO 1973
- Accession Number
- PH81-1975
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1975
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Bowness Family Foundation - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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With his then wife, the artist Lucia Moholy, László Moholy-Nagy moved from Budapest to Berlin in 1920. In 1923 he became a teacher at the Bauhaus school, initially co-teaching the foundation course and eventually becoming head of the metal workshop. Photography was a central focus of his practice. Having been first introduced to the medium by Lucia Moholy, Moholy-Nagy believed it was pivotal to creating a ‘new vision’ of the world, a concept in line with modernist understandings of postwar society. His work was highly experimental, and often characterised by unexpected framings and dramatic camera angles. Moholy-Nagy used photography as a means of representing the dynamism and complexity of urban culture in the 1920s.
