HAUS (Andreas). - Lot 128

HAUS (Andreas). Moholy-Nagy: Photographs and Photograms. New York, Pantheon Books, [1980]. Large quarto (approx. 31 × 24 cm), publisher’s binding with illustrated dust jacket. 255 pp. Extensive black-and-white and color illustrations. English translation by Frederic Samson. An important monograph devoted to László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), a leading figure of the Bauhaus and one of the founders of modern photography. Andreas Haus traces the entirety of his photographic oeuvre—including photographs, photograms, light experiments, photomontages, and research on vision—placing them within the context of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Published using material from the artist’s archives, this book remains one of the definitive works on Moholy-Nagy. It is illustrated with several hundred reproductions—many in color—covering both famous works and rarely reproduced documents. Condition: good copy. Slightly yellowed dust jacket with some signs of wear and staining on the back cover. Bookstore stamp obscured on the title page; a few old pencil annotations on the endpapers. Interior clean and fresh.