Susan Morgan–Dr. Block Color Productions: A 35mm view of architecture and design, 1943-1955
In 1945, R.M. Schindler wrote to Elizabeth Bauer Mock, director of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, advising her that if she wanted to get a better picture of how modern architecture was developing in the West, she should look at “Dr. Block’s collection of colored slides.” German émigré architect Fritz Block was an aficionado of the Leica camera and Kodachrome film and one of the few photographers that Schindler would ever recommend.
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SUSAN MORGAN
Susan Morgan’s writing about art, design, and cultural biography has been featured in exhibition catalogues, artist monographs, and mainstream publications. She is the editor of Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader (East of Borneo Books, 2012) and, with Kimberli Meyer, co-curated Sympathetic Seeing (MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, 2011), the first exhibition about the groundbreaking work of writer and social critic Esther McCoy.
Image:
Fritz Block (German, 1889-1955), photographer
Rose Harris House, Los Angeles, CA, 1942, destroyed by fire, 1959
Architect: Rudolph M. Schindler
Getty Research Institute, 2023.R.4
Gift of Manfred Heiting in honor of Dr. Fritz Block
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