Author : Graphics Arts Books
Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 1558689516
Award-winning photographers have combined their talents in this photographic tour de force which features many Chicago icons including the Sears Tower, Buckingham Fountain, Wrigley Field, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and Lake Michigan.
Author : Rick Kogan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 9780984126507
"Few people know Chicago as do Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood, and their "Sidewalks" column for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine is a tour of the city like no other, taking readers to the off-beat and quintessential spots that give Chicago its character--that make its inhabitants feel at home and tell its visitors that they have arrived. Accompanied by evocative color photographs by Charles Osgood, Kogan's pieces revisit the lost places and people of Chicago, and take readers down the quiet byways and thriving thoroughfares, pointing out the characters and cornerstones, the oddities and institutions that make the city what it is. In this collection you will find an elegy for Maxwell Street, the marketplace that pulsed with city life for more than 100 years; a remembrance of a disturbing advertisement ("Are you a slave to housework?") on the side of a building on Irving Park Road; a cross marking a deadly intersection; a magical miniature golf course; as well as ballad singer Fred Holstein, the denizens of the World Gym and memories of Bensinger's pool hall, the day-camp kids of summer, bike couriers, the creatures of the beach, and much, much more. Here is Chicago, past, present, and--let's hope--future, captured in the unique archive of Sidewalks."--Publisher's website.
Author : Erica Warren
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300254318
A beautifully illustrated look at the work of one of today’s most unique and exciting artists Bisa Butler (b. 1973) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that she cuts, layers, and stitches together. Often depicting scenes from African American life and history, Butler invites viewers to invest in the lives of the people she represents while simultaneously expanding art-historical narratives about American quiltmaking. Situating her interdisciplinary work within the broader history of textiles, photography, and contemporary art, contributions by a group of scholars—and entries by the artist herself—illuminate Butler’s approach to color, use of African-print fabrics, and wide-ranging sources of inspiration. Offering an in-depth exploration of one of America's most innovative contemporary artists, this volume will serve as a primary resource that both introduces Butler’s work and establishes a scholarly foundation for future research.
Author : Tom Maday
Publisher : Twopress Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 9780964170315
Author : June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810126494
The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten—all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules—of Chicago’s cultural giants as well as the industrialists, architects, and politicians who literally gave shape to the city. Jane Addams, Al Capone, Willie Dixon, Harriet Monroe, Louis Sullivan, Bill Veeck, Harold Washington, and new additions Saul Bellow, Harry Caray, Del Close, Ann Landers, Walter Payton, Koko Taylor, and Studs Terkel—Chicago Portraits tells you why their names are inseparable from the city they called home.
Author : Sam Landers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781732061804
Trope Chicago is a highly curated collection of photographic images from an active community of urban photographers who have passionately captured their city like never before.
Author : Chicago Tribune Staff
Publisher : Agate Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1572847433
The Chicago Tribune possesses a vast photo archive spanning its more than 150 years in publication. From the Civil War era through today, its photographers have captured thousands of people, from everyday Chicagoans to visitors to the Second City to well-known artists, athletes, and politicians. For the first time, the best of these great photographic portraits are being collected in a large-format coffee-table edition. Chicago Portraits comprises the most memorable of the innumerable images that some of the greatest photographers in journalism have created over the past century. It's a unique showcase for the unsung photographers who've quietly documented daily life in Chicago, and through their decades of work created an unparalleled panorama of the City of Big Shoulders. Curated by the Tribune's photography directors and compiled in a beautiful sewn hardback edition, this will be an engrossing visual cross-section of Chicago life that will be pored over by readers young and old for years to come. Chicago Portraits is a fascinating and colorful look into the lives and legacies that make up this great American city.
Author : Sofia Samatar
Publisher : Rose Metal Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941628102
"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.
Author : Mark Vancil
Publisher : Tango
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780966357202
Spectacular collection of over 100 colour photos of this famous basketball team.
Author : Taína Caragol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691203288
Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.
