One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of
Design was among the most important schools of photography in
twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental
Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of
influential teachers and students, including Lazlo Moholy-Nagy,
Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind. To date, however, the ID's
enormous contributions to the art and practice of photography have
gone largely unexplored. "Taken by Design" is the first publication
to examine thoroughly this remarkable institution and its lasting
impact.
With nearly 300 illustrations, including many never-before
published photographs, "Taken by Design" examines the changing
nature of photography over this critical period in America's
midcentury. It starts by documenting the experimental nature of
Moholy's Bauhaus approach and photography's new and enhanced role
in training the "complete designer." Next it traces the formal and
abstract camera experiments under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind,
which aimed at achieving a new kind of photographic subjectivity.
Finally, it highlights the ID's focus on conscious references to
the processes of the photographic medium itself. In addition to
photographs by Moholy, Callahan, and Siskind, the book showcases
works by Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth
Josephson, Gyorgy Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Richard
Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, and many others. Major
essays from experts in the field, biographies, a chronology, and
reprints of critical essays are also included, making "Taken by
Design" an essential work for anyone interested in the history of
American photography.
Contributors include:
Keith Davis, Lloyd Engelbrecht, John Grimes, Nathan Lyons, Hattula
Moholy-Nagy, Elizabeth Siegel, David Travis, Larry Viskochil, James
N. Wood
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