László Moholy-Nagy. Die beispiellose Fotografie

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László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), a prominent Hungarian artist, was a key figure in classical modernist photography and a prolific writer on the subject since the early 1920s. His essays, polemics, and reviews established photography as the leading medium of modernity. This volume collects his extensive writings on photography for the first time, featuring thirty-eight shorter articles alongside reprints of his two significant works, *Painting, Photography, Film* and *60 Photos*. Spanning his tenure as a Bauhaus instructor in Dessau, his freelance design work in Berlin, Amsterdam, and London, and his role as a professor at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, Moholy-Nagy crafted a revolutionary aesthetic. This book presents photography as a foundation for an original theory of modernity. The editors, Steffen Siegel and Bernd Stiegler, are both esteemed professors in their respective fields, focusing on the theory and history of photography and modern German literature in media contexts.