Photography between Chicago

Foreign Exchange: Photography between Chicago, Japan, and Germany, 1920–1960

Foreign Exchange: Photography between Chicago, Japan, and Germany, 1920–1960

After World War I, a striking visual language came to prominence in photography, characterized by the use of multiple exposures, unusual vantages, and sharp focus. While this style is often associated with the Bauhaus, an influential German art school of the 1920s and early ‘30s, this exhibition—of nearly 100 works across four decades—explores this modernist aesthetic as it developed through…