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Moholy-Nagy

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Moholy-Nagy
Laszlo or Ladislaus . 1895--1946, US painter and teacher, born in Hungary. He worked at the Bauhaus (1923--29)


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Encouraged by Moholy-Nagy she joined the metal workshop, being the only woman there, and soon rose to prominence despite the male chauvinism of her colleagues, becoming acting director.
Hofer doesn't work through a strategy of explicit estrangement (as in the modernist tradition of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy or Aleksandr Rodchenko, say, wherein architectural forms become barely recognizable, nearly abstract); rather, she locates the inherent strangeness of the most deadpan realism.
Another photographer in the show, Hungary's Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, did the same thing some 80 years later, but for a different purpose.
 
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