New Vision Photography

ニュー・ヴィジョン写真 / 1920s–1930s / Style / Modern Photography

Explores perception only the camera can reach — bird's-eye and worm's-eye views, extreme close-ups, experiments in light.

Steep angles / Close-up / Hard light and shadow / Abstraction

モホリ=ナジのフォトグラム

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
Type
Observe the type and composition of reference works
Composition
Extract the one principle that steers the eye
Material
Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
Caution
Check not only the look but the medium, technique and social context in which it formed.
Further study
László Moholy-Nagy / Film und Foto 1929 / Thomas Walther Collection

Related entries

Source: MoMA — Object:Photo, The Project

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