Main entry:

Bauhaus Fotografie. English.

Title & Author:

Bauhaus photography.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [1985]
©1985

Description:

xi, 315 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Original German edition published: Dusseldorf: Edition Marzona, 1982.
Includes index.
Part I : Bauhaus photographs -- Curriculum of the State Bauhaus in Dessau -- On the present state of photography / Walter Peterhans -- Photography is manipulation of light / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Optics -- the great fashion / Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart -- Discussion of the book The World is Beautiful by Albert Renger-Patzsch. The world is beautiful / Ernst Kallai -- Is the world beautiful? / Fritz Kuhr -- Conciliatory proposal / Ernst Kallai -- Painting and photography / Ernst Kallai -- Discussion of Ernst Kallai's article "Painting and photography" : Willi Baumeister, Adolf Behne, Max Burchartz, Will Grohmann, Ludwig Kassak, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Typophoto / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Pictorial examples of the use of photography as a typographical means -- Part II : Bauhaus album.
Translated into English from the original German.

Summary:

Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s include portraits, still lifes, and pictures of furniture, sculpture, and class projects, and are accompanied by discussions of the Bauhaus movement.

ISBN:

0262132028
9780262132022

Subject:

Bauhaus.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography Germany (West)
Photographie artistique.
Photographie Allemagne (Ouest)
art photography.
Photography
Artistic photography.
Germany (West)
Photography Bauhaus School - Collections

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Prakapas, Eugene, writer of foreword.
Peterhans, Walter, 1897-1960, contributor.
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946, contributor.
Vordemberge-Gildewart, Friedrich, 1899-1962, contributor.
Kállai, Ernő, 1890-1954, contributor.
Kuhr, Fritz, 1899-1975, contributor.
Baumeister, Willi, 1889-1955, contributor.
Behne, Adolf, 1885-1948, contributor.
Burchartz, Max, 1887-1961, contributor.
Grohmann, Will, 1887-1968, contributor.
Kassák, Lajos, contributor.
Fricke, Roswitha, editor.
Marzona, Egidio, book designer.
Mendelsohn, Harvey L., translator.
Samson, Frederic (Translator), translator.
Seligman, Janet, translator.
MIT Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 88188
Call No.: PO13101; ID:85-B12620
Status: Available