Photography, 1948-2001
Photographs taken by students in class. Boxes 268-294 are exceptional examples of student output, listed by name of lesson. Some examples of lessons are photograms, light modulators, virtual volume, portraits, documentary, architecture, children, and texture. These photographs also include selected, nameless series of photographs (man smoking cigarette, pictures of a farm) and images of students working around ID. An original print of Nathan Lerner’s and two copies of a Moholy-Nagy piece can be found in Box 281. The noteworthy contents of Boxes 278a-294 are detailed in the container list below.
Dates
- Creation: 1948-2001
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Research
Collection Size
66 Boxes
Arrangement
The photographs in this subseries are arranged by two methods. One section (Boxes 240-267) is arranged by photographer. This part of the series includes an original and extremely noteworthy print by Marvin Newman from the 1950s (Box 258), as well as photographs as old as 1948 from Robert Hall (Box 251), and the early photographs by ID’s first photography M.S. recipient, Jordan Joel Bernstein (Box 243). The other boxes in this series are arranged by lesson or class. Boxes 235-239 are arranged by class and photographer. Boxes 268-294 are exceptional examples of student output, listed by name of lesson
Creator
- From the Collection: Illinois Institute of Technology. Institute of Design (Organization)
Part of the Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections Repository