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<p>After studying photography at Brooklyn College and briefly joining the Photo League cooperative in New York, Marvin Newman came to Chicago in 1949 for graduate work at the Institute of Design. In 1952 he became one of the first students to earn a master’s degree in photography from the school. This image of the inverted shadows of pedestrians walking along Michigan Avenue was part of his graduate thesis, titled “A Creative Analysis of the Series Form in Still Photography.” In his words, the project explored “the variety of ways in which a group of photographs may be connected or related to constitute a series.”</p>