Taken by design : photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971

Summary: This catalogue documents the experimental nature of Lazlo Moholy-Nagy's Bauhaus approach and photography's new and enhanced role in training the "complete designer." Then, it traces the formal and abstract camera experiments under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Finally, it highlights the ID's focus on conscious references to the processes of the photographic medium itself. The book showcases works by Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Gyorgy Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Richard Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, and others and includes essays from Lloyd C. Engelbrecht, Keith F. Davis, John Grimes, Larry Viskochil, and Elizabeth Siegel, brief biographies, and a chronology.