László Moholy-Nagy, a native of rural Hungary and a veteran of World War I, was among the scores of avant-garde artists forced out of Germany by the Nazis in the 1930s. The founding director of the New Bauhaus or Institute of Design in Chicago in 1937, his innovations in graphics, photography, and industrial design have influenced generations. This is an example of one of his photograms, camera-less images made through the choreography of materials before a light-sensitive surface. In this new formal realm, he aimed to remodel our sensory perception of the world.