Ella Fitzgerald; performing at Mister Kelly’s nightclub, Chicago, 1958.
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Group of girls being sent home from McKinley High School for wearing “dungarees” and “slickers,” 1946, Chicago.
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John Maloof was at a Chicago thrift auction house when he purchased, on a whim, a box of photographic negatives that had caught his eye. He had no idea at the time, but he had just discovered one of the best street photographers of the 20th century.
Vivian Maier was born in New York, grew up in France, and lived most of her adult life in Chicago working as a nanny. She had absolutely no photographic education or training. Maier’s work was never shown to anyone during her lifetime, and out of the over 100,000 negatives attributed to her, many remain undeveloped.
Vivian Maier: Street Photos is the first published collection of her work, a tribute to one of the great pioneers of American street photography, that for 60 year, no one knew existed.
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"Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real."
— Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
Vivian Maier—Chicago, 1961
"The town—its streets and people, its parks and broad lake and the sand-dunes beyond—the whole half-formed metropolis—is painted in broad vital strokes and rich colors by the loving unflattering hand of an artist."
— Harriet Monroe on Sandburg, Poets and Their Art
1950. State St.
I’ll be taking part in the Hideout Holiday Sale, Tuesday, December 18th, 6-9pm.
Many paintings and drawings will be available for as low as $50. Copies of Hack will for sale.
Hope to see you there.
Hutchinson Court, 1945
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—H.D., Poetry, March 1915
“In A Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound appeared in the April 1913 issue of Poetry.
We’re celebrating 100 years of Poetry on State Street throughout the month of October. The project highlights the diversity of Poetry’s authors and its deep connection to the city of Chicago. Poets represented include some of Poetry’s early discoveries, such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens; more contemporary writers, including former U. S. Poets Laureate Kay Ryan and Robert Hass; and local poets like Reginald Gibbons and Li-Young Lee.
We hope you’ll tweet photos of your favorite quotes! Use the hashtag #looppoetry.
A Kid Again
2012
Public Installation, Chicago Suburbs, IL,
Simon M.
A Kid Again started as a means to contest how public space is deemed heterosexual space by default; by adding my queer narrative to the public sphere, I wanted take up those physical spaces where I felt my identity was either a burden or simply erased. Using the past, I developed a sort of queer map of moments in the suburbs where I grew up.
When I distilled the 11 moments to their circumstances, I realized how misinformed and harmful my perceptions of acceptance, free will, and reality were as a child and adolescent. I had internalized homophobia to the point where I viewed my existence as an “other-sexual” as an inconvenience to “normal” people. This project attempts to start, in public, those dialogues that I never could.
So I printed the moments on signs, put them in the locations where they occurred, and expressed those things that I felt I was never supposed to.
After 5 hours (from 5 AM to 10 AM), there were 3 signs left standing. Many were taken within 2 hours of their installation.
Chicago, July 3rd, 2012
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The Grand Ave viaduct as it appeared just before demolition in 1975.
Built in 1888 for horse-drawn carriage traffic, it was too narrow for two-way cars and had to be torn down.
I love the stars and moons details…
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