Julio de Diego (wings on eyes)
Artist
Peter Pollack
(American, 1911–1978)
Date1971
Mediumsilver gelatin print
Dimensions23.6 x 16.4 cm (9 5/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Creilly Pollack
Terms
Object number2004.88
Label TextAs a teenager in Spain, Julio de Diego (1900-1979) began his career as a theater designer. He worked in opera and dramatic theater production in Paris and New York before moving to Chicago in the early 1930s. There Diego enjoyed a long and colorful career as a painter, designer, and teacher. During the 1950s Diego married a famous exotic dancer, Gypsy Rose Lee.
Pollack was a scholar, photographer, and the first curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. He became interested in photography while a student of Bauhaus icon, László Moholy-Nagy. In 1958 he authored “The Picture History of Photography,” published by Harry N. Abrams. Translated into five languages, it was considered a definitive survey on photography for over two decades.
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