Bauhaus.- Moholy-Nagy (Laszlo) Malerei Fotografie Film 28, first Russian edition, 33 photographic illustrations and photo-montages by Moholy-Nagy, Alfred Stieglitz, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Man Ray and others, a few ink underlinings and annotations, one leaf tiny tear to fore-edge, original yellow wrappers printed in red, slightly soiled, spine a little worn and defective, upper cover lacking upper tip and small portion at lower inner edge, small 4to, Moscow, Ogonek, 1929.

⁂ Rare first Russian edition of the classic photography monograph first published in Munich in 1925. Influenced by Constructivism Moholy-Nagy was a key figure in the development of avant-garde photography in Germany at the time and in this treatise he sets out his ideas for a new visual literature, proposing that photographers should not merely document what they saw but to look at the world in new ways.