{"id":2848,"date":"2025-05-06T09:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/publikationen\/bauhausbuecher-8-laszlo-moholy-nagy-painting-photography-film\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:00:55","slug":"bauhausbuecher-8-laszlo-moholy-nagy-painting-photography-film","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/research\/publications\/bauhausbuecher-8-laszlo-moholy-nagy-painting-photography-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Bauhausb\u00fccher 8 \u2013 L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy: Painting, Photography, Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern show-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/header-publikationen'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only padding-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-10'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-5'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-10'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n<h1 class=ho-sd-h2>Bauhausb\u00fccher 8 \u2013 L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy: Painting, Photography, Film<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 margin-top-7 col-md-4'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_FQg2tQ\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 2055,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Bauhausbuecher_8_Moholy-Nagy-248x300.png\",\"width\":248,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":129060},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Bauhausbuecher_8_Moholy-Nagy-363x440.png\",\"width\":363,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":262905},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Bauhausbuecher_8_Moholy-Nagy-479x580.png\",\"width\":479,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":435402},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Bauhausbuecher_8_Moholy-Nagy.png\",\"width\":530,\"height\":642}},\n\"alt\" : \"Cover of the book &quot;Painting Photography Film&quot; by L. Moholy-Nagy, part of the Bauhaus Books series.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:121.1320754717%;   \">\n\t<div class=\"height-container-contents lazy-media-contents\">\n\t\n\n\t\n<div class=\"lazy-media loaded\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Bauhausbuecher_8_Moholy-Nagy-e1746516455926.png\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, (min-width: 764px) and (max-width: 1023px) 83.333333333333vw, (min-width: 1024px) 83.333333333333vw\" alt=\"Cover of the book &quot;Painting Photography Film&quot; by L. Moholy-Nagy, part of the Bauhaus Books series.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 margin-top-7 col-md-offset-2'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'><strong>Bauhausb\u00fccher 8 \u2013 L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy: Painting, Photography, Film<\/strong><br><br>Edited by Lars M\u00fcller in collaboration with Bauhaus-Archiv\u2009\/\u2009Museum f\u00fcr Gestaltung<br><br>134 pages, 100 illustrations<br>Hardcover<br>Lars M\u00fcller, 2020, Englisch <br><br>This new English translation is published in the layout of the German first edition of 1925 and features a separate commentary.<br><br>Offered a position at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1923, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy (1895\u20131946) soon belonged to the inner circle of Bauhaus masters. When the school moved to Dessau, Moholy-Nagy and Walter Gropius began a fruitful collaboration as joint publishers of the Bauhausbu\u0308cher series.<br><br>In addition to designing and editing the Bauhausbu\u0308cher, Moholy-Nagy produced a title of his own: the legendary Painting, Photography, Film. In this book, Moholy-Nagy\u2019s efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as art forms on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The artist makes the case for a radical rethinking of the visual arts and the further development of photographic design to keep pace with a radically changing technological modernity.<br><br>Alongside theoretical and technical approaches and forays into the nature of the medium, Moholy-Nagy uses an extensive appendix of illustrations to provide a thorough survey of the numerous possibilities that photography and film could offer\u2014from press photography and scientific imagery to Moholy-Nagy\u2019s own abstract photograms and New Vision photographs.<br><br>This English translation of Painting, Photography, Film is based in content and design on the 1925 German first edition, making the latter available to an international readership for the first time. The publication includes a brief scholarly text providing crucial contextual information and reflecting on the history and legacy of Moholy-Nagys book.<br><br>Available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bauhaus-shop.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bauhaus-Shop<\/a> or directly from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lars-mueller-publishers.com\/painting-photography-film\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lars-mueller-publishers.com\/painting-photography-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publishers<\/a>.<br><br>Please ask our colleagues in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bauhaus-shop.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bauhaus-Shop<\/a> for prices and availability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2055,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ho_image_focal_point":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2848","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"seo_titel":"","keywords":"","noindex":false,"redirect":"","short_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/2848\/revisions\/31365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}