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Abstract
A defining moment in the history of photography in Chicago occurred in the summer of 1946. For six weeks, from 8 July to 16 August, world-renowned photographers convened for lectures, seminars, field trips, and demonstrations to inaugurate the new department of photography and its four-year programme at László Moholy-Nagy's Institute of Design (ID).Footnote1 Paul Strand, Berenice Abbott, Beaumont Newhall, Roy Stryker, and Erwin Blumenfeld all taught at the seminar, as did Arthur Siegel, Frank Scherschel, Gordon Coster, and Moholy himself The ‘New Vision in Photography’ seminar established the tenor of all subsequent teaching at the ID. Henceforth, learning photography there would be collaborative, practical, professional, intellectual, and have strong components of film and photohistory. Since many of the most important American photographers of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s were students at the ID (among them Thomas Barrow, Linda Connor, Barbara Crane, Kenneth Josephson, Ray K. Metzker, Richard Nickel, Arthur Sinsabaugh and Charles Swedlund) it is fur to say that the seminar directly impacted on the course of photography in the postwar period. And because it produced so many college-level instructors, the ID is regarded as ‘the seminal institution for the development of college-level photography programs’.2
Moholy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937; it closed after little more than a year. It reopened in 1939 as the School of Design, and in 1944 the name was changed once more to the Institute of Design. The ID still exists in Chicago today but since 1949 has been a school within the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Moholy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937; it closed after little more than a year. It reopened in 1939 as the School of Design, and in 1944 the name was changed once more to the Institute of Design. The ID still exists in Chicago today but since 1949 has been a school within the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Notes
Moholy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937; it closed after little more than a year. It reopened in 1939 as the School of Design, and in 1944 the name was changed once more to the Institute of Design. The ID still exists in Chicago today but since 1949 has been a school within the Illinois Institute of Technology.