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Terms and conditions applyAaron Siskind and Louis Sullivan: The Institute of Design Photo Section Project
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Format: Book
Pages: 272
Publisher: William Stout Publishers
Date Published: Oct 2011
Stock Code: 73058
ISBN: 9780979550836
Binding: Hardback
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A fascinating book for followers of both architecture and photography: the first publication of a projectthat involved two giants of American arts, photographer Aaron Siskind and architect Louis Sullivan,called the father of modernism, and the creator of the skyscraper. In 1952, while Siskind was teaching atChicago s Institute of Design, he and his advanced photography students undertook a comprehensivephotographic survey of Sullivan s architecture, eventually shooting over 60 buildings.
From hundreds of photographs, Siskind composed an exhibit of 126 photographs of 35 buildings bySullivan, who died in 1924. Siskind's exhibit was a documentation of Sullivan s architecture unlike anyother - and one that could never be repeated, because so many of Sullivan s buildings were demolishedshortly thereafter. More than 50 years later, the photographs are still fresh: Sullivan's buildings arearrested in their decline, their darkened ornament luminous in Siskind's incomparable compositions.
In fine accompanying texts, this book also tells the story of the exhibit, relating the Sullivan project toSiskind's documentary and abstract work and to earlier Sullivan building photographs. The use ofarchitectural photographs was an essential part of early modern architectural exhibits and histories thatsought to codify the International Style. Siskind's innovative photographs and equally innovative exhibitinstallation challenged the opinions of Sullivan and modern architecture by architectural historians at thetime. Includes 166 black and white reproductions.
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