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This video represents the continuation of our Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA) series. FCDA is a non-profit collective of prominent photographers and writers who have come together to explore the United States during one of the most enduring times in the nation’s history. The work of Carlos Javier Ortiz, one of the FCDA photographers, sheds light on the crime in Chicago and migrant workers in Illinois. 
Lee Balterman (American, 1920- ) was born at Augustana Hospital in Chicago. After graduating high school in 1938, he went on to take evening classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career. At 86, he continues to live and photograph almost daily in Chicago.
(All rights reserved. Images courtesy and @ Stephen Daiter Gallery) 
Artist and University of Chicago professor Laura Letinsky speaks about the exhibition at The Renaissance Society by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1994) and about the influence of the museum’s Director Susanne Ghez. John White: Portrait of Black Chicago The following essay is adapted from a longer article by Bruce I. Bustard, the curator of Portrait of Black Chicago. The DOCUMERICA Project, 1971-77 If I were to begin describing to you a collection of photographs in the National Archives, taken in the early and mid-1970s by photographers on contract with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), you would probably not get too enthusiastic. And if I would then say that these photographs document “subjects of environmental concern,” you would probably assume, as I did, that this collection consists of images of smog, clear-cut timber, traffic congestion, sewerage plants, and oil spills. You would be in for a pleasant surprise. You would be surprised because, while the images I am discussing–the records of the EPA`s DOCUMERICA Project–do, in fact, contain scenes of environmental blight, they also include many images that go well beyond any narrow definition of “environmental concern.” In the holdings of DOCUMERICA are THEORY: "The DOCUMERICA Project, 1971-77, John White – Portrait of Black Chicago" 
Photographer Brian Ulrich, featured in the Walker Art Center’s 2008 exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, discusses his work with writer Paul Schmelzer. |
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