Taken by design: Photographs from the institute of design, 1937-1971; art institute of Chicago - Chicago - Brief Article

ArtForum, Jan, 2002 by Vince Aletti

Though far too individualistic to be labeled the Chicago School, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and others at the Institute of Design made the city a driving force in avant-garde American photography. Key to that influence was Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who founded ID as the New Bauhaus in 1937, bringing his idealistic "new vision" for the integration of art and technology with him from Dessau.

This show of zoo images, organized by the Art Institute's David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel, includes work by Moholy-Nagy, Callahan, and Siskind, as well as acolytes Gyorgy Kepes, Ray K. Metzker, Kenneth Josephson, and Nathan Lerner. Mar. 2--May 12; SF MOMA, July 20--Oct. 20; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dec. 21--Mar. 2, 2003.