Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - The Photograms. Catalogue Raisonné (SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2009

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HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE, SCARCE BOOK - showing Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's super beautiful photograms.
Catalogue Raisonné with all the pictures.

Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil (never opened; the pictures from inside are from another copy).
RARE OPPORTUNITY & COLLECTOR'S COPY.

"László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was one of the most internationally influential teachers at the Bauhaus. It is essentially owing to his effective artistic and journalistic skills that photography became an integral part of modern art in the twenties. He “discovered” the aesthetic possibilities of photograms in 1922 and continued his inventive work with them until 1943, turning them into icons of the medium that are still waiting to be fully brought to light.This catalogue raisonné, meticulously edited by photography expert Renate Heyne, is the first to feature all of the known works—close to 450 of them—in chronological order. Until now, most of them had only been published in history books and auction catalogues. This volume contains far more information than is usually found in a classic descriptive catalogue of works: it explains the artistic, technical, and biographical circumstances under which the photograms were created, examines them in relation to other areas of Moholy-Nagy’s work, and analyzes them at length on the basis of selected pieces. A biography and a bibliography of the photograms round off this catalogue raisonné."
(from the publisher)

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Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern. 2009. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with jacket. 247 x 296 mm. 312 pages. 616 photos (48 in colour, 568 in duplex). Edited: Renate Heyne, Floris M. Neusüss, Hattula Moholy-Nagy. Graphic Design: Margarethe Hausstätter. Foreword: Hattula Moholy-Nagy. Introduction: Floris M. Neusüss. Text: Herbert Molderings, Renate Heyne. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside new, mint, unread. Dustjacket with perfect spine and front; rear side with a few nicks. Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil, so untouched and never opended. Overall near mint, near perfect condition.

Very beautiful book by László Moholy-Nagy - in wonderful fresh condition.

"It is largely thanks to László Moholy-Nagy’s artistic and journalistic efforts that photography became an integral part of modern artistic creation, starting in the 1920s. His photograms are icons of the medium, and yet his photographic oeuvre has never been comprehensively published. For the first time, Moholy-Nagy’s daughter Hattula has now granted full access to her father’s photographic archive and made the material available for publication."
(from the publisher)