At the Illinois Art Gallery, 100 West Randolph, State of Illinois Building, Chicago; from June 20 to August 15, 1997. The public is invited to an opening night reception on Friday, June 20, from 5:30 to 7:30.
For more information contact Judith Burson Lloyd: 312-814-5322
In Nathan Lerner (1913-1997): A Lifetime of Photographic Inquiry, the Illinois Art Gallery is honored to pay tribute to the internationally recognized and well loved Chicago photographer Nathan Lerner who died February 8, 1997.
Lerner's photography includes documentation of Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods shot during the Depression; ingenious experimental light studies of the 1930's and 40's created at Moholy-Nagy's New Bauhaus in Chicago (later the School of Design); and color work shot in Japan and Europe during the 1980's and 90's. He was especially famous for his 1930's photographs of the Maxwell Street neighborhood.
Click here to read excerpts from his handwritten notes about Maxwell Street.
Nathan Lerner was head of the Photo Workshop at the School of Design in 1941, Dean of the Faculty and Students and Chairman of the Product Design Workshop in 1944, and Acting Educational Director following the death of Moholy-Nagy in 1946. He left the school in 1949 to begin his own design firm. Works in this exhibit were selected by his wife, Kiyoko Lerner.
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