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Legendary photographs from the Chicago Institute of Design
The 170 images by different photographers on show at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (until 20 October) are some of the most important shots from the Chicago Institute of Design. Founded in 1967 by László Moholy-Nagy, the Institute was created as a US outpost of the Bauhaus (closed down in 1933 by the Nazis) and was to become one of the most important American schools of photography during the twentieth century, with amongst others, Harry Callahan, Arthur Siegel and Aaron Siskind passing through its corridors.
Organised by the Chicago Institute of Design itself – which today continues the tradition of experimental and avant garde education – and curated by David Travis, the exhibition is divided in three parts.
From the early years (1937-46), marked by countless experiments in the study of new forms, techniques and materials, moving onto a period of significant growth and expansion in the educational programme (1946 to 1961). In these years, thanks to Callahan and Siskind, activity in the dark room gives way to the search for a personal vision and subjective expression. During the sixties the ID absorbed and exploits creatively the effects of a country undergoing radical change. The exhibition will then to the Philadelphia Art Museum in December.
until 20.10.2002 Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971 SF MoMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third St. San Francisco T +1-415-3574000 http://www.sfmoma.org
Kenneth Josephson, American New York State, 1970. The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall
László Moholy-Nagy, City Lights (Eastgate Hotel), 1939-46. Collection of Hattula Moholy-Nagy
