Bauhaus Worksheet #8: Slow vision
The artist and designer László Moholy-Nagy was a Bauhaus master from 1923 to 1928. In his 1947 book “Vision in Motion”, he described eight varieties of photographic vision: 1. abstract, 2. exact, 3. rapid, 4. slow, 5. intensified, 6. penetrating, 7. simultaneous and 8. distorted.
With this bauhaus_worksheet, you can use light to paint the darkness and practice slow vision.
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You'll need:
– a camera
– dark room
– flashlight
– coloured cardboard
– white paper
– scissors
– and a photo assistant
1. Cut out a geometric form in the piece of paper and enter a dark room.
2. Ask your photo assistant to hold the white paper above the coloured cardboard and shine the flashlight through the hole in the paper. A bright, geometric shape will now appear on the cardboard.
3. Take photos of the projection while your photo assistant moves the flashlight back and forth over the cut-out in the paper.
What effects can you observe in your photos?
Idea und concept: Rubén González Escudero -