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Photo: A History from Behind the Lens

Season 1Episode 6Aired 2012-12-02
New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s

New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s

Criticism of the 1920s heralded the arrival of "The New Photographer", which was a typically European phenomenon. This photographic avant-garde, often politically located on the far-left, was embodied by Moholy-Nagy, Umbo, El Lissitzky and Rodtchenko.