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Its influence on architecture and design and objective of uniting art, craft and technology into a single practice has been the subject of countless books, courses and exhibitions stretching back decades. But there is one discipline that the short-lived Bauhaus school, founded in 1919 in the German town of Weimar, is far less well known for: photography.
Today, images of Bauhaus objects, buildings and students can be shared thousands of times on social media platforms like Instagram. Accounts like Bauhaus Movement have hundreds of thousands of followers and have helped drive the resurgence of public interest in the movement, which will celebrate its centenary next year.
But few know much about who took these pictures and what role photography played in the wider school. Perhaps that isn’t surprising. Those who have studied photography at the Bauhaus say it defies easy classification, and that the concept of a definitive Bauhaus photographic style is a largely a myth.
“Everybody talks about Bauhaus style or Bauhaus photography but there is nothing like it,” says the author and historian Jeannine Fiedler. “You had so many different approaches and attitudes towards photography.”
Photography was first used at the Bauhaus as a form of documentation. Walter Gropius, th
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Bauhaus - The cradle of modern photography
Photography is the medium that, along with architecture and design, is still today most strongly associated with the Bauhaus. 100 years after the founding of the school in Weimar, it is evident how innovatively photography has developed after László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hannes Meyer, T. Lux Feininger and Walter Peterhans. Volume 1 of the double-volume publication spans an arc from the origins of modern photography to the present day and combines works by famous Bauhaus photographers with photographs by outstanding contemporary artists such as Evelyn Richter and Maix Mayer.
- The photo icons of the last 100 years at a glance
- With recordings from Moholy-Nagy to Ed Ruscha
- Attractive design typical of the Bauhaus by award-winning graphic designer David Voss
- Equally exciting for Bauhaus fans and those interested in photography
- In the corresponding volume 2: Photography of the students of the class Joachim Brohm HfBK Leipzig
Cool equipment and famous artists
The volume, in a design typical of the Bauhaus and with a Swiss brochure, i.e. an open spine, presents works by renowned photographers from 1919 to 2019: Hannes Meyer, Erich Consemüller, Christ