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Chicago Churches: A Photographic Essay

av Elizabeth Johnson

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The first book from twenty-four-year-old photographer and designer Elizabeth Johnson, Chicago Churches: A Photographic Essay, is an insightful look at the church, not just as architecture but as a reflection of the cultural individuality within a city and, more importantly, the universality of faith.Captured through the city's change of seasons, these photographs of 100 Chicago-area houses of worship display an intriguing cross section of religious and cultural groups and the communities they represent. Through the sometimes poignantly editorial and often classically simple photographs, Elizabeth portrays Chicago's diversity with eloquence and heart.A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Chicago charitable and community organizations.… (mer)
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Take any expressway into the city, and you will be struck by the number of spires and steeples that you see. Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, a place where many people, when asked where in the city they live, name their parish. Chicago is a city of immigrants, and they brought their religions with them and built buildings in which to worship. As the city's demographics changed, a church named for a German saint fills with Mexican worshipers, a Greek Orthodox church becomes a mosque. And in the city that invented the skyscraper, we have a church housed on the top floor of an office building.

Elizabeth Johnson traveled the city (and some of the suburbs), photographing houses of worship. (The title Chicago Churches is really a misnomer, as she includes synagogues and mosques.) They range from the ghetto storefront churches to Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, Unity Temple, from the Gothic splendor of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel to the sterility of the O'Hare Airport Chapel.

The photographs have an old-fashioned sepia tinge to them, and the buildings appear in a variety of moods. Johnson often takes a shot angling upwards, as though reaching for the heavens, and she likes to juxtapose a traditional church building with a modern neighbor, as with the cover shot of a steeple seen next to the antennae of the John Hancock. Interspersed throughout the book are quotations from the world's major religions.

A beautifully designed book, this should find a home on the shelves of anyone who loves Chicago, architecture, photography, or (like me) all three!
  lilithcat | Jun 7, 2009 |
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The first book from twenty-four-year-old photographer and designer Elizabeth Johnson, Chicago Churches: A Photographic Essay, is an insightful look at the church, not just as architecture but as a reflection of the cultural individuality within a city and, more importantly, the universality of faith.Captured through the city's change of seasons, these photographs of 100 Chicago-area houses of worship display an intriguing cross section of religious and cultural groups and the communities they represent. Through the sometimes poignantly editorial and often classically simple photographs, Elizabeth portrays Chicago's diversity with eloquence and heart.A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Chicago charitable and community organizations.

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