LIGHT AND VISION
PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN IN CHICAGO, 1937-1952

Stephen Daiter [foreword]

Stephen Daiter [foreword]: LIGHT AND VISION: PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN IN CHICAGO, 1937-1952. Chicago: Stephen Daiter Photography Gallery, 1994. First edition [edition of 1500 copies]. A new softcover book in stiff, printed wrappers: still in publishers shrinkwrap.

8.5 x 10.25 perfect-bound softcover catalogue with 68 pages and many beautifully-reproduced b/w images by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and many others. Foreword by Stephen Daiter. Catalog Checklist, Chronology, Biographical Sketches and Bibliography.

Published on the occasion of several landmark exhibitions: "Light and Vision" at the Chicago Photographic Print Fair from September 23 to 25, 1994; at The Chicago Cultural Center and "Moholy-Nagy and His Students: The New Bauhaus" at the Robert Henry Fine Arts Gallery from September 9 through October 12, 1994. A landmark exhibition, it precedes by many years the book-length study called "ID: Institute of Design" that was published by the Art Institute of Chicago. A pioneering work of lasting significance. This title was not commercially distributed and is now very difficult to find.

The photographers include Henry Holmes Smith, Gyorgy Kepes, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Arthur Siegel, Margaret de Patta, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Marvin Newman and Yasuhiro Ishimoto, among many others.

Presents the works that emanated from the Chicago institutions known as the New Bauhaus, The School of Design and the Institute of Design, which offered the most important and influential photography programs in the United States from the 1930's through the 1960's. No other photography school or program since then has matched let alone surpassed the achievement of the schools and their enduring influence. The works of some of the very greatest names in 20th-century American photography are all represented here and the photographs shown in the exhibitions were all vintage prints while the photograms were all unique.

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