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Series Title: Institute of Design, Student Independent 3

Untitled (Looking into a Structure)

c. 1960

Robert Tanner

(American, b. 1937)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 23.5 x 18.4 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.); Mounted: 36.2 x 28.3 cm (14 1/4 x 11 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carl and Joan Schneider 2021.231
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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From 1946 through the 1970s, the photography department at Chicago’s Institute of Design was one of the most important and avant-garde photography programs in America.

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TheInstitute of Design, which was founded in 1937 in Chicago by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy to continue the principles of the German Bauhaus, offered an experimental atmosphere that encouraged exploration of the interconnectedness of art, design, and architecture and of the various art media. Starting in the 1950s, in order to draw attention to their work, the photography students banded together to publish portfolios.
A vertically oriented black-and-white photograph captures a dark interior through a jagged, circular opening in a decaying wall. Peeling paint and dark streaks texture the surface, while debris litters the floor. Within the dark room, a single, bright square of light glows in the distance. Strong contrast defines the scene, catching the textured ground in the foreground against the deep, silhouetted void of the inner chamber.

Untitled (Looking into a Structure)

c. 1960

Robert Tanner

(American, b. 1937)
America

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