Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
[Artist, photographer, designer, and teacher, b. 1895, Bacsbarsod, Hungary, d. 1946, Chicago, Illinois.]
The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of camera and pen alike.
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We have—through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film—been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.
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In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.
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The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.
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In photography we must learn to seek, not the “picture,” not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.
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The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
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It must be stressed that the essential tool of the photographic process is not the camera but the light-sensitive layer.
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The photogram can be called the key to photography because every good photograph must possess the same fine gradations between the white and black extremes as the photogram.
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