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19/7/2002

Taken by Design

SFMoMA, San Francisco

Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971

Saturday, July 20, 2002 - Sunday, October 20, 2002

Home to photographic luminaries such as László Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind, Chicago's Institute of Design (ID) was founded in the 1930s as an outpost of Germany's Bauhaus, and - within a short time - became one of the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. During its history, the ID has provided training and inspiration to an impressive number of students who rank among the best fine art photographers in the country. Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971, is the first museum exhibition to comprehensively examine the ID's significant contribution to the history of American photography.

Featuring some 170 images by approximately 75 photographers, Taken By Design covers the groundbreaking achievements of the ID during its formative and peak years, from the school's founding by Moholy-Nagy in 1937 through the teaching tenure of Callahan, from 1946 to 1961 to the departure of Siskind in 1971. In addition to presenting photographs by Moholy, Callahan, and Siskind, the exhibition showcases works by Eileen Cowin, Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, György Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Richard Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, Linda Connor, and others.

Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971, is organized by David Travis, curator of the department of photography at The Art Institute of Chicago. Overseeing the SFMOMA exhibition is Sandra S. Phillips, SFMOMA senior curator of photography. Following its presentation in San Francisco, the exhibition will travel to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from December 2, 2002 through March 3, 2003.

Image: Kenneth Josephson
New York State, 1970
Gelatin silver print
Collection The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall

This exhibition was organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and has been made possible by LaSalle Bank.

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