New Bauhaus Chicago
Subtitle: experiment, photography
By: edited by Kristina Lowis for the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung Berlin ; translation, Sonja Knecht, Michael Wetzel
Contributors: Hoiman, Sibylle, contributor; Grimes, John, 1945- contributor; Bähr, Astrid, contributor; Daiter, Stephen, contributor; Siegel, Elizabeth, 1969- contributor; Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung; Hirmer Verlag
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783777429373
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Exhibitions; Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.); Photography; Bauhaus; Illinois Institute of Technology; New Bauhaus (Chicago, Ill.); Chicago School of Design; Artistic Photography; History
Other titles: New Bauhaus Chicago :
Description: "This lavishly illustrated volume looks from both sides of the Atlantic at 80 years of photography from Chicago. At the New Bauhaus and what later became the Institute of Design, teachers like László Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes and later Arthur Siegel, Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind taught an uninhibited approach to the medium which influenced generations of photographers."
Notes: Published on occasion of the exhibition at Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Germany from 15 November 2017 to 5 March 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204).

"New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Photography and Film", November 15, 2017-March 5, 2018, the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Germany.

Text in English, with selections translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Kristina Lowis and Sibylle Hoiman; title: Element, Experiment, System, Process: Photography at the New Bauhaus and Institute of Design  -- Kristina Lowis; title: The Photography Program at the Institute of Design  -- John Grimes; title: Moholy-Nagy's Legacy: the Self-Presentation of the "American School of Design" in Its School Brochures  -- Astrid Bähr; title: The Institute of Design: Balancing Education, Commerce, and Artistic Express  -- Stephen Daiter; title: The Bauhaus and the German Legacy of Its Heir in Chicago: the New Bauhaus Collection at Berlin's Bauhaus-Archiv in the Context of Collection Strategy and Historiography  -- Sibylle Hoiman; title: From the Institute of Design to the Art Institute of Chicago: Photography, Photography, the School and the Museum  -- Elizabeth Siegel; title: New Pictures from Chicago -- Kristina Lowis.