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Laddar... On City Streets: Chicago, 1964-2004 (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) (utgåvan 2005)av Gary Stochl (Författare)
VerksinformationOn City Streets: Chicago, 1964-2004 (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) av Gary Stochl
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City streets are perhaps the most paradoxically anonymous and personal of all public spaces in the city: people blindly collide in their rush to reach their destinations, while the homeless look for humanity amid the thousands passing by. Gary Stochl captures this daily drama in On City Streets, a penetrating examination of the unpredictable people, places, and events that make up the streets of downtown Chicago. It is a stunning collection made even more so by the fact that this is the first work of Stochl's to be seen in his forty years as a photographer. Until 2003, Stochl had never shown his photographs to anyone; his rich body of images remained completely unknown to the public. Self-taught and working in isolation, Stochl carefully studied the work of other renowned urban photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank. Through his studies, he learned how to see his subjects, and he developed a visual language uniquely his own, unfettered by fashion or community. The results of his efforts are these powerful images that provide a starkly honest and penetrating glimpse into the lives of city dwellers and their internal struggle with the loneliness of contemporary urban life. Like all great images, Stochl's photographs leave the viewer with an altered sense of the world. On City Streets offers, with unnerving directness and consistency, that rare artistic combination of visual sophistication and stunning emotional resonance. With this book, Stochl joins the ranks of Chicago's great photographers. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Studs Terkel (1986)
On City Streets: Chicago, 1964-2004
Gary Stochl
Every Chicagoan knows of the dual Chicago Terkel has chronicled throughout his lifetime—a city of history, progress and beauty but also brutality, corruption, and oppression, the city of the '68 convention, the city that inspired Richard Wright's Native Son. Mere meters away from the sun-drenched liveliness of Lake Shore Drive, downtown Chicago grows quickly gray and drab just a few blocks west of Michigan Avenue, the sun shielded by an army of skyscrapers that creates a cavern of concrete and steal.
After nearly forty years of snapping photos around town, Gary Stochl was discovered when he showed up, unannounced, at the office door of a Columbia College photography professor, a paper bag full of black and white prints in hand. Stochl's work dwells in that darkside of downtown Chicago, observing the people who trudge along its shadowy streets, their heads down and glances averted--some look at the camera but none make eye contact with other people. Stochl sensitively manages to preserve their individuality and humanity while providing a glimpse at their alienation and fear.
The complicated city both celebrated and mourned by Terkel and Stochl is vanishing, its culture, architecture, and life obscured behind the bland, generic face of gentrification. Terkel's prose, as always, drips with love for the city's vanishing history, the roller rinks, the union halls, the gin joints, the neighborhoods, many of which were dead or dying when Chicago was published . . . a few more have died off since. Chicago drips of both the love and hate the 95-year old Terkel has expressed for the city since his seminal work Division Street America back in the 1960s. Chicago is, by Terkel's admission, merely an afterword to Nelson Algren's Chicago: City on the Make. Algren is not merely imitated, he's channeled, and no one both hated and loved Chicago like Nelson Algren.
Chicago's stark photography also leaves a blistering impression, providing both history and commentary. The pictures of photojournalists Arthur Shay, Mark PoKempner, Archie Lieberman, and Steven Deutch, which are plentiful, rival those of Stochl's in terms honesty and sincerity.