From the library I rented a book out called 'Picturing Modernism, Moholy-Nagy and Photography in Weimar Germany' by Eleanor M Hights. The book focuses on modernist photography that have been an important contribution to art in the twentieth century by the photographer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. It also looks at something called the 'New Vision' and how the modern world is explored. Moholy believed that art should 'heighten our awareness of the ever-changing present' this is represented in his photographs of buildings as he captures the modernity of them. I found Moholy's work to be very interesting with how he uses dramatic angles to capture modern architecture.
I scanned some images from the book to analyse for inspiration as they all capture modernisation in the city which is what I want to capture in my own photographs. In this image Moholy has emphasised the scale of the building by using a low camera angle as it makes you look up at it because it towers over you.
By composing the image this way Moholy has made the tallest building the main focal point because of the way it is centred in the picture and framed by the other buildings as it is in the middle of them.
In the two pictures below the camera angle Moholy has used captures the size of the buildings. By using a low camera angle makes you look up towards the building which represents the way the city is growing and expanding. Moholy has used dramatic camera angles that makes the photographs appear very modern and new as it gives a different look at buildings. The repetition of the windows adds a formal view to the pictures because it represents structure, they also draw your eye upwards towards the top of the building which emphasises the scale of them.
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