László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946, HU/US) experimented with the photogram, a process also discovered by Man Ray at the same time. In 1923 he was the head of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he developed an experimental practice that spanned the most diverse fields: painting, typography, photography, cinema, design, scenery… Based on the interplay between art and technology extolled by the Bauhaus, he conceived a ‘new’ man nourished by utopia, experimentalism and a fascination with new technologies.  As an independent artist and designer in Berlin, he worked in advertising, publishing, theatre and more. He was charged with the task of selecting photographs for the 1929 exhibition Film und Foto in Stuttgart, where a room was dedicated to him.  He became director of the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937 and also created the Institute of Design there, which he led until his death.  His stay in Marseille in 1929 gave him the opportunity to take more photographs from the transporter bridge and the surrounding area. These images testify to his keen eye, as sensitive to the abstract force of a network of cables as to the picturesque nature of a sailor dozing on a jetty.