page 2 Expanding Vision: László Moholy-Nagy?s Experiments of the 1920s
László Moholy-Nagy
The Light-Space Modulator, [invented by Moholy-Nagy, ca. 1922-30], ca. 1930
Gelatin silver print

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This philosophy also extended to Moholy-Nagy's alternative processes of photography: photograms, film, and photomontages. He began collaborating with his wife, Lucia, on photograms in 1922. These abstract images of objects exposed onto light-sensitive paper were, in his eyes, a new creative means, and linked to the extension of vision into the areas of x-rays and spectography. His interest in kinetic light effects found the ultimate expression in his Light-Space Modulator, a sculpture he developed from 1922-1930, and the subject of the Lichtspiel film.
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