Arthur Siegel
A Detroit-raised photographer who took New Bauhaus ideas into photojournalism and teaching.
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Siegel was born in Detroit and earned a sociology degree at Wayne State University in 1937. He studied at Chicago's New Bauhaus with László Moholy-Nagy, returning to Detroit in 1938 and working as a photojournalist.
After the war he taught at the Institute of Design in Chicago, heading its photography department. He is known for experimental abstract color.