Unveiling the avant-garde fusion of photography and modern graphic design The concept “Typophoto,” the synthesis of photography and typography, was coined by renowned Bauhaus artist and theorist László Moholy-Nagy and played a foundational role in the modernist graphic design movement known as the New Typography. Here, Jessica D. Brier examines how Typophoto was embraced by early graphic designers—a group who ultimately reinvented photography as a tool of modern consumerism. Typophoto embodied designers’ belief in photography as an efficient form of visual communication,...