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Photoland shibboleths

Inspired by Lazenby.

Name Pronunciation
Ansel Adams Actually I prefer Robert
Diane Arbus dee-ON
Eugène Atget ah-JAY
Rineke Dijkstra DIKE-struh
Robert Doisneau row-bear dwa-no
Peter Lik I’ve never heard of him
Philip-Lorca diCorcia Just get the hyphens and capitalization correct
Lázló Moholy-Nagy mo-ho-li naj
Edward Ruscha roo-SHAY
Alec Soth rhymes with both
Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, 1936-1946

László Moholy-Nagy

No other teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, nor nearly any other artist of the 1920s in Germany, an epoch so rich in utopian designs, developed such a wide range of ideas and activities as Moholy-Nagy. His work bears evidence to the fact that he considered painting and film, photography and sculpture, stage set design, drawing, and the photogram to be of equal importance.

László Moholy-Nagy Retrospective

Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Space CH 4, 1938
Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Space CH 4, 1938
Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, 1936-1946
Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, 1936-1946
Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, 1939
Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, 1939
Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Composition A XXI, 1925
Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Composition A XXI, 1925

Because I get excited anytime I run across something online which combines photography with other media. Not that any of this is new. But it’s still something we tend to forget a lot when we end up focusing on photography by itself.