About this title: One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in 20th-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 ...
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Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780226811673ISBN:0226811670
Description: New condition. Quarto (4to). 270 pages of text. Flexible hardcover binding in new conditon; protected in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Contains the work of Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Arthur Siegel, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Ray Metzker, Kenneth Josephson, Art Sinsbaugh, Barbara Crane, Linda Conner and other Chicago Photographers. read more
Description: Art Institute of Chicago (2002). Glossy flexible boards, no dj, as issued. May have minor shelf wear. Text is clean. VG or better. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Laminated Pictorial Boards
Publisher: Uni. Chicago Press, UK
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780226811673ISBN:0226811670
Description: As New. No Jacket as Issued. Exhibition Catalogue. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. WE SPECIALIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS. 271pp. Informative texts with over 200 b/w photos by over 75 photographers. 7 chapters. Bibliography. Catalogue. Chronology. Useful list of photographers includes-Moholy-Nagy, Lerner, Siegal, Callahan, Siskind, Ishimoto, Metzker, Josephson, Crane and others with mini biogs. Index. Essential reading and reference for those who study photography. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780226811673ISBN:0226811670
Description: New. 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 i... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226811673ISBN:0226811670
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