L. Moholy Nagy: Dessau Photogram

Besides form, composition, and tone there is not too much to read into this photogram.  However these three aspects of the image depict a relationship between life and death, lightness and darkness, and beauty and the absence of beauty.  The wilting form of the flower cutting through the dark conveys a feeling of life or survival to me.  The form of the flower reminds me of a man or woman arching their back, but the form is so objectified it seems destroyed almost.  The tone not only makes the image better than just stark white and black but it also brings out a relationship between the flower’s beauty and the fact that the flower is not represented in it’s true beautiful form (here- not here).