A ladder of light descends across smoky dark

A hard-edged white block sits at the upper right, and from it a run of bright bars steps down to the left across the sheet, each separated by a dark gap so the sequence reads like a ladder or a strip of frames. Below and to the left, broad soft-edged pale areas open out like a lit sail, faintly striated and streaked. Dark bands curve through the middle of the sheet and thin pale lines trail away at the lower right, the whole thing built from light raking over objects rather than drawn.

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was a Hungarian painter, photographer and designer and one of the defining teachers of the Bauhaus, where he led the preliminary course and the metal workshop from 1923 to 1928. He worked in paint, photography, typography and light, pioneering the cameraless photogram and setting out his ideas in Malerei, Fotografie, Film (1925). Driven out of Germany, he worked in Amsterdam and London before settling in Chicago, where he founded the New Bauhaus in 1937. His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate.

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