The Museum of Modern Art publishes “One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers”
One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers, published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, is the first book to reproduce all seventy photocollages created by Josef Albers at the Bauhaus using photographs he made between 1928 and 1932.
One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers, published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, is the first book to reproduce all seventy photocollages created by Josef Albers at the Bauhaus using photographs he made between 1928 and 1932. Hailed in his own lifetime as among the most important figures of twentieth-century art, both as a practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale University, Albers achieved widespread acclaim across a range of mediums, from glassworks and furniture design to printmaking and painting. Yet Albers's engagement with modernist photography has remained largely unknown. At once expansive and restrained, this remarkable body of work anticipates concerns that Albers would pursue throughout his career: seriality, perception, and the relationship between handcraft and mechanical production. The publication celebrates MoMA's recent acquisition of ten of Albers's photocollages, which are on view in a related exhibition at the museum from November 23, 2016, through April 2, 2017.
