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Lot Essay
In 1930, Moholy completed his "Light Space Modulator" which he originally titled Light Prop for an Electric Stage". His "Light Prop" was, in effect a kinetic sculpture that also functioned as an infinitely variable form which could be photographed, filmed, drawn or displayed on its own. The photograph offered here was produced from Moholy's film of the sculpture, Light Display, Black and White and Gray from 1930. The film features the "Light Prop" only and shows it in seemingly endless variations, as if a continuous light display of Constructivist forms and light.
The following lot is one from a series of still lifes he made of it in 1930. The "Light-Space Modulator" is in the collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, a gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy in 1956.
The following lot is one from a series of still lifes he made of it in 1930. The "Light-Space Modulator" is in the collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, a gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy in 1956.