Art Institute Exhibition Reveals Facets of Louis Sullivan’s Architecture

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago, home of one of the most comprehensive architecture archives and photography collections in the United States, has organized an innovative exhibition that explores the work of Louis Sullivan through the lenses of legendary photographers John Szarkowski, Aaron Siskind, and Richard Nickel. These photographers employed their cameras to document and interpret Louis Sullivan’s architecture and, in the process, helped shape his legacy. Showcasing more than 60 photographs, 20 Sullivan drawings and sketches, and terracotta and metal architectural fragments, Looking After Louis Sullivan: Photographs, Drawings, and Fragments—on view in Photography Galleries 1 and 2 and Architecture Gallery 24 through December 12, 2010—provides a rare opportunity to examine Sullivan’s structures and ornamental programs across a variety of media. Since photography’s beginnings in the

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