It was only when Gertrud Arndt got to the Bauhaus that she found there was no course in architecture. So she became a weaver. But her secret passion was photography. 

Blühová was one of the few students at the Bauhaus to engage with social photography. Before joining the course, Slovakian-born Blühová was already observing the lives of people around her with a critical eye. 

Etel Fodor-Mittag followed in her photographic portraits she made starting in 1929 the extreme perspectives of the New Vision, which was at its height around this period.

As early as 1928, a year before the photography course started, Fodor-Mittag was already taking her first semi-professional shots, including an ironic still life in which a toy pistol is firing three sugar cubes towards a glass of water.

A photo from Horacio Coppola’s Bauhaus period is a detailed shot of a feather placed on a kind of cotton material. The curving structure of the feather and the firm lighting and exposure of its downy texture create an association with perfect softness and safety.