ENJOY THE NEWEST EDITION of the SUPER POPULAR SINGLE-SELLER AUCTIONS by 5Uhr30.com (Ecki Heuser, Cologne, Germany). Offering some of the BEST PHOTOBOOKS WORLDWIDE - from my private collection and from recent acquisitations. VERY BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH 58 (!) IMPRESSIVE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - of life at Eton College. WIDELY UNKNOWN AND UNDERRATED. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. The art critic Peter Schjeldahl called him "relentlessly experimental" because of his pioneering work in painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, theater, and writing. He also worked collaboratively with other artists, including his first wife Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Herbert Bayer. His largest accomplishment may be the Institute of Design in Chicago, which survives today as part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and art historian Elizabeth Siegel called "his overarching work of art". He also wrote books and articles advocating a utopian type of high modernism." (Wikipedia) "Eton College is an English public school (a fee-charging boarding school) providing education for boys aged 13–18, located in Eton, Berkshire. The school was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore, and is the largest boarding school in England. Eton is known for its history, wealth, and notable alumni (Old Etonians), having been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". It is also one of three public schools (the others being Harrow and Radley) to have retained a boys-only, boarding-only tradition. The school is part of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group." (Wikipedia) Frederick Muller, London. 1949. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 195 x 250 mm. 88 pages. Black and white photos. Photographs by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Introduction by Bernard Fergusson. Chapter on College by Philip Brownrigg. Text in English. Condition: Book inside fresh and flawless, clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing (only first and last blank page with a few neat stains); normal trace of use, no remarkable flaws or defects. Book outside fresh; light trace of use, the front cover is bent up slightly. Lacks the very rare jacket. Overall fine condition. Great, widely unknown and underrate book with more than 50 (!) photographs by Bauhaus legend Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's photographs were originally included in Bernard Fergusson's "Eton Portrait", published in 1937. "In 1923, Moholy-Nagy was invited by Walter Gropius to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. He took over Johannes Itten's role co-teaching the Bauhaus foundation course with Josef Albers, and also replaced Paul Klee as Head of the Metal Workshop. This effectively marked the end of the school's expressionistic leanings and moved it closer towards its original aims as a school of design and industrial integration. The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists, and Moholy-Nagy was no exception. Throughout his career, he became proficient and innovative in the fields of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, film-making, and industrial design. One of his main focuses was photography; starting in 1922, he had been initially guided by the technical expertise of his first wife and collaborator Lucia Moholy. In his books Malerei, Photographie, Film (1925) and The New Vision, from Material to Architecture (1932), he coined the term Neues Sehen (New Vision) for his belief that the camera could create a whole new way of seeing the outside world that the human eye could not. This theory encapsulated his approach to his art and teaching. Moholy-Nagy was the first interwar artist to suggest the use of scientific equipment such as the telescope, microscope, and radiography in the making of art. With Lucia, he experimented with the photogram; the process of exposing light-sensitive paper with objects laid upon it. His teaching practice covered a diverse range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, photomontage, and metalworking." (Wikipedia) "Eton College was designed to be ornate and striking. Under Henry VI's plans, the nave of the college chapel would have been the longest in Europe, featuring 18, or possibly 17 bays. The lower storeys of the cloister, including College Hall, were also built under Henry (1441 and 1460 respectively). After Henry's deposition, construction of the chapel was halted, leaving only the quire section and 8 bays. The chapel was completed by Eton's first Headmaster, William Waynflete through the building of the ante-chapel. The important wall paintings in the chapel and the brick north range of the present School Yard also date from the 1480s. The school struggled with funding during this period of construction, leaving the completion and further development of the school dependent to a certain extent on wealthy benefactors. Building resumed when Roger Lupton was Provost, around 1517. His name is borne by the large gatehouse in the west range of the cloisters, fronting School Yard, perhaps the most famous image of the school. This range includes the important interiors of the Parlour, Election Hall, and Election Chamber, where most of the 18th century "leaving portraits" are kept. After Lupton's time, nothing major was built until around 1670, when Provost Allestree donated a range to close the west side of School Yard between Lower School and Chapel". This was remodelled later and completed in 1694 by Matthew Bankes, Master Carpenter of the Royal Works. The last important addition to the central college buildings was the College Library, in the south range of the cloister, 1725–29, by Thomas Rowland. It has a very important collection of books and manuscripts. Eton College was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as the Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore. It was originally a charity feeder school for King's College, Cambridge, providing a free education for 70 poor boys. Henry used Winchester College as a model, visiting it at least six times[b] and having its statutes transcribed. He then appointed Winchester's headmaster, William Waynflete, as Eton's Provost, and transferred some of Winchester's scholars to start his new school. Soon after Eton's establishment, Henry granted it a large number of endowments, including much valuable land forfeited from alien priories. The school also housed several religious relics and artefacts such as a part of the True Cross, Crown of Thorns, and one of England's Apocalypse manuscripts. However, when Henry was deposed by King Edward IV in 1461, all grants to the school were annulled. A large number of Eton's assets and treasures were transferred to St George's Chapel, Windsor. Legend has it that Edward's mistress, Jane Shore, intervened on the school's behalf and was able to save a good part of the school, although the royal bequest and the number of staff were still very much reduced." (Wikipedia)