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Henry Beck - 20th Century Design Classic

This is a London Underground Tube map by Henry Charles Beck, he was an English engineering draftsman who was best known for the creation he made, the present London Underground tube map. He created his invention in his spare time at work. This London Underground map looks like an electrical circuit board when you look at it, which would make sense as the creator of this was an engineer. The main feature of his design is to change the curving lines of a real map into straight lines, to make the map easier to read. In 1932 his tube map was given a trial production and was successful with 500 copies, therefore in 1933 his design was given a full publication with 700,000 copies and just only a month after the publication there was a need for a larger print to be made. Ever since Henry Charles Beck's invention of the tube map, his idea has been used throughout the world by different subways, bus and transit companies. Many urban rail and metro maps use his principles too.

Edward Steichen

Edward J. Steichen born: March 27^th 1879 and died: March 25^th 1973 he was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917.

While at Museum of Modern Art, in 1955 he created and assembled the exhibit The Family of Man. The exhibit eventually travelled to sixty-nine countries, it was seen by nine million people, and sold two and a half million copies of a companion book. In 1962, Steichen hired John Szarkowski to be his successor at the Museum of Modern Art. Edward Steichen is appreciated for creating The Family of Man in 1955, a vast exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art consisting of over 500 photos that depicted life, love and death in 68 countries.

Some of Edward Steichens work:

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Nutzhorn (Lange) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 26th May, 1895. At the age of seven, Dorothea contracted polio which left her with a permanent limp. After her German born father abandoned the family, Dorothea assumed her mother’s maiden name.

Dorothea Lange studied at the New York Training School for Teachers but changed her mind and decided to become a photographer. She worked in an Arnold Genthe’s studio before studying photography under Clarence White at Columbia University. In 1918 Lange moved to San Francisco and the following year established her own portrait studio in the city

The Family Of Man

The Family of Man was a photography exhibition created by Edward Steichen first shown in 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Held at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition consisted of 508 photographs from sixty-eight countries. The photographers who took part included Dorothea Lange, Robert Capra, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jack Delano, Margaret Bourke-White, Esther Bubley, Bert Hardy, Edward Weston, Matthew Brady, Frank Scherschel, Wayne Miller, Eva Arnold, Irving Penn, Consuelo Kanaga, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Brandt, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Ben Shahn and Marion Palfi, The professed aim of the exhibition was to mark "essential oneness of mankind throughout the world."

During the time it was open, the Family of Man became the most popular exhibition in the history of photography, and the most successful exhibition in the history of photography.

By the end of its world tour in 1961, it was estimated that The Family of Man exhibition had been seen, in person by 9 million people.

Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art. Born: 1928 September 9th, Died: April 8th 2007.

Sol LeWitt has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. His prolific two and three-dimensional work ranges from wall drawings (over 1200 of which have been executed) to hundreds of works on paper extending to structures in the form of towers, pyramids, geometric forms, and progressions





Sol LeWitts work:

Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth is an American Conceptual artist. His art generally strives to explore the nature of art, focusing on ideas at the fringe of art rather than on producing art per se. Thus his art is very self-referential

One and Three Chairs, 1965, is a work by Joseph Kosuth. An example of conceptual art, the piece consists of a chair, a photograph of this chair, and an enlarged dictionary definition of the word "chair". The photograph depicts the chair as it is actually installed in the room, and thus the work changes each time it is installed in a new venue.