Arthur Siegel (photographer)

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Arthur Sidney Siegel (August 2, 1913, Detroit – February 1, 1978, Chicago) was an American photographer and educator.

Biography

Siegel began photographing in the mid-1920s as a youth. He studied at

Office of War Information.[2]

After the war, he returned to the New Bauhaus (by then the

IIT Institute of Design) as an instructor, at the request of Moholy-Nagy.[2] He eventually became head of the school's photography department. He left in 1955 to work in photojournalism full-time, and returned in 1965; in 1971, he was named president of the IIT Institute of Design.[2] In 1955, he married Irene Yarovich, an artist whom he met at IIT.[4]

Siegel's photography was included in several major exhibitions at art galleries, including two shows devoted exclusively to Siegel at the Art Institute of Chicago and as part of the "Image of America" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.[2] He was noted for his use of experimental color techniques, and from the 1950s often explored abstract use of color as a vehicle for expression.[2] He worked with light in novel ways by "introduc[ing] creative methods of back-lighting and projecting light onto surfaces".[3] He also wrote extensively on photography and influenced the development of photographic education programs.

References

  1. ^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  2. ^
    Britannica.com
    , updated January 28, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Right of Assembly. Museum of Contemporary Photography.
  4. ^ Northway, Martin (June 8, 1995). "Whatever happened to Irene Siegel?". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on 2010-11-03.
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