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Porter, Allen
(1902-1987)Tabletop composition

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Tabletop composition. 1948. Vintage unique gelatin silver print. 24,1 x 19,2 cm (25,2 x 20,1 cm). Signed, titled and dated by the photographer in pencil on verso, hinge-mounted in mat.

Allen Porter attended the School of Design (later the Institute of Design) from 1946 to 1949. The Institute of Design was originally founded as The New Bauhaus: Chicago School of Design in 1937 by László Moholy-Nagy. It was established as the successor to the German Bauhaus, which had been dissolved in 1933 under pressure from the National Socialists. The school continued the Bauhaus philosophy of modernist, human-centered design. In 1939, the school moved to a new location and was renamed the School of Design. It later merged with the Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture, led by Bauhaus alumnus Mies van der Rohe, and in 1944, it was renamed the Institute of Design in Chicago. – In very good condition.

Provenance: Christie's. Light, Volume and Form: Photographs from the Shalom Shpilman Collection, May 24-June 2, 2016, lot 78.