{"id":3105,"date":"2025-05-06T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/forschen\/publikationen\/bauhaeusler-4-lucia-moholy-hundert-jahre-fotografie-1838-1938\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:32:06","slug":"bauhaeusler-4-lucia-moholy-a-100-years-of-photography-1838-1938","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/research\/publications\/bauhaeusler-4-lucia-moholy-a-100-years-of-photography-1838-1938\/","title":{"rendered":"Bauh\u00e4usler 4 \u2013 Lucia Moholy: A Hundred Years of Photography 1839\u20131939"},"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>Bauh\u00e4usler 4 \u2013 Lucia Moholy: A Hundred Years of Photography 1839\u20131939<\/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\" : 2142,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Bauhaeusler-4_Lucia-Moholy-224x300.jpg\",\"width\":224,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":6284},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Bauhaeusler-4_Lucia-Moholy-765x1024.jpg\",\"width\":765,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":42022},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Bauhaeusler-4_Lucia-Moholy-768x1028.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1028,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":42063},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Bauhaeusler-4_Lucia-Moholy-329x440.jpg\",\"width\":329,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":11357},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Bauhaeusler-4_Lucia-Moholy-433x580.jpg\",\"width\":433,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":17125},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Bauhaeusler-4_Lucia-Moholy-538x720.jpg\",\"width\":538,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":23813},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Bauhaeusler-4_Lucia-Moholy-956x1280.jpg\",\"width\":956,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":61409},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Bauhaeusler-4_Lucia-Moholy.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":1339}},\n\"alt\" : \"Book cover featuring a portrait of Lucia Moholy and the title &quot;A Hundred Years of Photography 1839-1939&quot; 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Dokumente aus dem Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. Bd. 4<br><br>Edited by the Bauhaus-Archiv \/ Museum f\u00fcr Gestaltung<br>With an introduction by Sibylle Hoiman<br><br>220 pages, numerous illustrations<br>Broschur<br>2016, German and English<br><br>As early as 1930, Lucia Moholy (1894\u20131989) harboured the idea of writing a \u201cphoto book\u201d 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 \u201cPelican Specials\u201d 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. 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