Funkturm Berlin (Berlin Radio Tower), 1928-1929, by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

"Your eyes are obsolete." 🕶️

László Moholy-Nagy (Bauhaus) revolutionized photography. He climbed the Funkturm (Berlin) to shoot straight down, inventing the "New Vision." It's the moment the medium stopped being polite.

Full story in our Journal @ www.verve.art

Images: www.moholy-nagy.org

Karl Blossfeldt photograph of three thistle heads with sharp radiating spines creating explosive starbursts against a gray background, demonstrating botanical forms as industrial design, circa 1920s

Botany? No, this is Brutalism.

Karl Blossfeldt turned common weeds into iron architecture. Using a homemade camera, he magnified nature 30x, proving that thistles and ferns were the original industrial designers.

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Vincent van Gogh, A Lane Near Arles, May 1888

ELLIOTT ERWITT, Marilyn Monroe in New York, 1956

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SLIM AARONS, Pool at Lake Tahoe, 1959

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FRED LYON, Incline Stride, San Francisco, 1959

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IRVING PENN, Man Lighting Girl's Cigarette, 1949

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DIANE ARBUS, Exasperated boy with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962

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WILLIAM KLEIN, Mirrors on the Roof, New York, 1959

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IRVING PENN, Woman in Moroccan Palace, Marrakech, 1951

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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ, Alone, Paris, 1930

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GARRY WINOGRAND, World’s Fair, New York City, from Women Are Beautiful, 1964

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BRASSAI, Devant la Closerie des Lilas, Avenue de l'Observatoire, 1932

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HELMUT NEWTON, Hand in Shoe, Paris, 1991

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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ, Washington Square at Night, 1954

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ELLIOTT ERWITT, Saint-Tropez, France, 1959

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PATRICK DEMARCHELIER, Christy Turlington, New York, 1990

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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON, Queen Charlotte's Ball, London, England, 1959

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Robert Doisneau, La Dame Indignée, Vitrine Galerie Romi, Paris, 1948

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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON, Eton, 1962

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LOUIS STETTNER, Brooklyn Promenade, Brooklyn, 1954

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BRASSAÏ, Looking through Pont Marie to Pont Louis Philippe, Paris, 1930-32

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KLAUS RINKE: Time, Space, Body and Action, 1972

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Helmut Newton, Pirelli Calendar, 1986

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BRASSAÏ, Passage de Clichy, 1930-1932

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BRASSAÏ, Lovers at the Gare Saint-Lazare, c. 1937

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ANDRE KERTESZ, Champs Elysees, 1929

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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON, Paris, Saint Germain des Prés, Brasserie Lipp, 1969

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SABINE WEISS, l'Homme Qui Court, 1953

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SLIM AARONS, Portofino, 1977

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