László Moholy-Nagy was the one to decidedly influence the development of photography at the Bauhaus from 1923 onwards. In the centre of his vision was a fascination with light, which culminated in the Light-Space-Modulator. From 1925 Moholy-Nagy turned towards camera photography after he had applied his “Painting with Light” ideals.
The photography of this time made especially clear the influences of so-called “New Seeing” and “New Objectivity.” This was demonstrated in the focus on the object to be depicted as a creative photographic element as opposed to the formerly valid, strictly documentary interest in depiction.