New Vision Photography

New Vision is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as a concept advanced by Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementNew Vision
Photographers2

Overview

A concept advanced by Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus. It rejected ordinary natural vision in favor of bird’s-eye views, steep angles, extreme close-ups, and photograms in order to explore photography’s own visual language.

Photographers

🇷🇺RU1891–1956
Alexander Rodchenko
Modernism
ModernismNew Vision

Alexander Rodchenko was one of the central figures of the Soviet avant-garde and one of the photographers who most radically redefined what the camera could do in modern visual culture.

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🇭🇺 🇩🇪HU / DE1895–1946
László Moholy-Nagy
Bauhaus Photography
BauhausNew Vision+2

Born in Hungary, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy served in World War I and began drawing on his own while still in the trenches.

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