Art Sinsabaugh (1924-1983) was an American photographer.
Biography
Sinsabaugh was born in 1924 in
Irvington, New Jersey
Irvington is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 61,176.
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. From 1949 to 1959 he worked part-time as an instructor at
IIT Institute of Design
Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), founded as the New Bauhaus, is a graduate school teaching systemic, human-centered design.
History
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. Sinsabaugh was an assistant professor at the
University of Illinois
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...
from 1959 until he died in 1983 in
Chicago, Illinois
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. From 1972 to 1973 he worked for the
Center for Advanced Studies and University of Illinois where he was an associate member. He was one of the founders of the
Society for Photographic Education. In 1966 he was awarded
Illinois Arts Council Award and
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Award. In 1969 he became a fellow in
Guggenheim and by 1977 became a fellow at the
National Endowment for the Arts Photographers'. The
Indiana University Art Museum
The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University opened in 1941 under the direction of Henry Radford Hope.Baden, Linda J. Indiana University Art Museum: Dedication. Bloomington, IN: Museum, 1982. Print. The museum was intended to be the center of ...
houses the Art Sinsabaugh archive containing over 3,000 photographs, family memorabilia, and Sinsabaugh's personal papers
References
1924 births
1983 deaths
20th-century American photographers
People from Irvington, New Jersey
University of Illinois faculty
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