60 Fotos (or 60 Photographs) is a seminal monograph published in 1930 that functions as a visual manifesto for Moholy-Nagy’s photographic theories. It was the inaugural volume in the Fototek series, edited by Franz Roh, which was intended to showcase the "New Photography" emerging from the Bauhaus and beyond.

The book is less of a traditional "portfolio" and more of a pedagogical tool. It organizes his work to demonstrate the specific technical and philosophical "problems" he was solving through the medium.

The book contains sixty full-page black-and-white plates, carefully selected to represent the full spectrum of his experimental practice:

• Photograms: Cameraless images that show light interacting with translucent objects and liquids (like oil squirted into developer).
• Negative Prints: Reversals of light and dark that emphasize graphic structure over representation.
• Photomontages: Complex, layered compositions that Moholy-Nagy referred to as "Fotoplastiken" (photo-plastics).
• Straight Photography: Images taken from radical perspectives—extreme bird's-eye and worm's-eye views—to demonstrate the "New Vision."
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The book itself is a masterpiece of modernist design:

• Typography: The layout and cover were designed by the legendary typographer Jan Tschichold, whose clean, functional style perfectly complemented Moholy-Nagy’s imagery.
• Theory: It includes a significant introductory essay by Franz Roh (available in German, English, and French in the original edition) that contextualizes these works as a departure from traditional art toward a more scientific, "objective" way of seeing.

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