This century belongs to light. Photography is the first attempt to give form to light, even though by transposition. Perhaps it is this very transposition that almost results in abstraction.
Translated by Gerhard Loose from L. Moholy-Nagy, 'Die Beifspiellose Fotografie' Das Deutsche Lichtbild, Jahres schau 1927, Berlin, Verlag Robert & Bruno Schultz, 1927.
