At the New Bauhaus and what later became the Institute of Design in Chicago, teachers like L szl Moholy-Nagy and Gy rgy Kepes, and later Arthur Siegel, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind, molded generations of groundbreaking photographers.
About the Author: The Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum fur Gestaltung was founded in 1960 to collect and present all documents relating to the activities and cultural and intellectual heritage of the Bauhaus..
Marking the hundredth anniversary of the Bauhaus, this richly illustrated volume celebrates a school of photography that made history on both sides of the Atlantic.
Surveying eighty years of photography from Chicago, the wide range of illustrations in this volume extend from conceptual and process-oriented series to material experiments and abstract photograms, and include contemporary works that reflect the continued importance of the Bauhaus school of thought in the present day.
This collection introduces the protagonists and institutions who have inspired, created, collected, and exhibited photography since the founding of the New Bauhaus in 1937.
At the New Bauhaus and what later became the Institute of Design in Chicago, teachers like L szl Moholy-Nagy and Gy rgy Kepes, and later Arthur Siegel, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind, molded generations of groundbreaking photographers
