[Climbing the Mast], 1928, Gelatin silver print, Image: 35.4 x 28 cm (13 15/16 x 11 in.), Photographs, László Moholy-Nagy (American (born Hungary), Borsod 1895–1946 Chicago, Illinois), This exciting and unexpected view up the rigging of a sailboat, made on the Spree River near Berlin, is a prime example of Moholy's 'new vision.' Armed with a small hand-held camera and a free-wheeling spirit, Moholy made 'bird's-eye' and 'worm's-eye' views that transformed the pictorial conventions of perspective and posited a new way of experiencing and representing the world
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