Bauhäusler 4 – Lucia Moholy: A Hundred Years of Photography 1839–1939

Lucia Moholy: A Hundred Years of Photography 1839–1939 / Hundert Jahre Fotografie 1838–1938

Bauhäusler. Dokumente aus dem Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. Bd. 4

Edited by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
With an introduction by Sibylle Hoiman

220 pages, numerous illustrations
Broschur
2016, German and English

As early as 1930, Lucia Moholy (1894–1989) harboured the idea of writing a “photo book” and began extensive research. She realised her ambition to write a history of photography based on cultural history by embedding the preconditions, developments and achievements of the new medium within a broad political, economic, technical, aesthetic, artistic and sociocultural context. The publication was commissioned by Penguin Books and appeared in 1939. Part of the “Pelican Specials” series initiated in 1937, it comprises 35 photographs selected by its author as well as several reproductions of engravings from periodicals, which are integrated into the text. The publisher successfully realised their intention to release an affordable, broadly accessible photographic history for a wide audience to mark the 100th anniversary of photography: the print run of 40,000 copies at sixpence each sold out within a short time. Photography as a mass-produced good, which it undoubtedly already was in 1939, corresponded to the medium that embraced it, the paperback.

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