Arthur Siegel
USA (1913—1978)Born in Detroit, Siegel began his career teaching photography at Wayne State University. In 1937 he received a scholarship to study at the New Bauhaus, later the Institute of Design, where he worked with Moholy-Nagy and Kepes. Back in Detroit, he worked as a freelance photographer for LIFE, Fortune and other publications, while his involvement with the Camera Club brought him into contact with Harry Callahan. From 1946 to 1949 he headed the photography department at the Institute of Design in Chicago and taught the course “New Visions in Photography”. He later continued working as a photojournalist on a variety of projects, returning to the Institute of Design in 1965 and becoming chair of its Photography Department in 1971.
