PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BAUHAUS movement are now on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The exhibit reveals the energy of the German Bauhaus group which attempted to define 20th century art by combining the aesthetic ideal with the technical and the practical.
Photography was not emphasized until the movement's later days. The camera was not seen merely as a means of aethestic expression--the exhibit lacks emotional and classic artistic poises--but rather as a technical tool which could be used to communicate and to explore visual reality. The photographs in the exhibit, created by professionals, teachers and students, reveals the range and versatility of the medium. One of the leaders of photography in the Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy, created a number of "photograms." Photograms are not traditional photographs, but rather collections of objects exposed on photographic paper. The exhibit runs through November 30.
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