CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/5/2013

László Moholy-Nagy: Color Rush

Featured image, Bauhaus luminary László Moholy-Nagy's "Study with Pins and Ribbons" (1937-38), is reproduced from Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman, published by Aperture to accompany the Milwaukee Art Museum's remarkable spring exhibition. Spanning from "magazine pages to gallery walls, advertisements to photojournalism," Color Rush connects the history of color photography from 1907—when the Lumière brothers unveiled the autochrome process in Paris—to 1981—when curator Sally Eauclaire mounted the landmark ICP exhibition, The New Color Photography. For Moholy-Nagy, essayist Lisa Hostetler writes, the camera was "a thoroughly modern tool that allowed for refreshed ways of seeing because it transcribed light—the most fundamental component of vision—directly, without the intervention of human subjectivity."