Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection (1909 to 1949) – in pictures

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  Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975). Votive Candles, New York City. 1929–30. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Edmund Kesting (German, 1892–1970). Glance to the Sun. 1928. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Alvin Langdon Coburn (American, 1882–1966). The Octopus. 1909. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian, 1891–1956). Girl with a Leica. 1932–33. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Gertrud Arndt (German, 1903–2000). At the Masters’ Houses. 1929–30. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Max Burchartz (German, 1887–1961). Lotte (Eye). 1928. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  André Kertész (American, born Hungary. 1894–1985). Mondrian’s Glasses and Pipe. 1926. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Osamu Shiihara (Japanese, 1905–1974). Construction of Hand. 1932–41. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Lucia Moholy (American, born Hungary. 1895–1946). Florence Henri. 1927. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish, 1885–1939). Anna Oderfeld, Zakopane. 1911–12. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

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  Willi Ruge (German, 1882-1961). Seconds before Landing from the series I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump. 1931. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thomas Walther Collection

Photography in the years between the First and Second World Wars fizzed with new ideas. This phase is captured in a New York exhibition, which tells this exhilarating story of avant-garde photography. More than 300 images, including from towering figures, such as Willi Ruge, Gertrud Arndt and Aleksandr Rodchenko, give an insight into the radical intentions of their creators.

• Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909 to 1949, runs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, until April 19