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Description:
children playing in sand; shadows; sunshine; outdoors

Label Text:
“Fotografie ist Lichtgestaltung.”
(Photography is manipulation of light.)

—László MoholyNagy


Moholy-Nagy was an influential teacher at the Bauhaus, becoming a professor at this school of the fine and applied arts in 1923. His photographs display what he saw as a “new vision.” Here, the artist has used a high perspective, a strong contrast between shadows and light, and an emphasis on the surface textures of sand and cloth to transform a scene of children playing on the beach into an abstract image that transcends narrative.

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https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1933.4.6

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