Photo Essays Chicago

pre-electionChicago1956

Adlai Stevenson for President, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor Richard Daley, Estes Kefauver.....

Adlai Stevenson, Democratic Candidate for the President of the United States, campaigning in Chicago, 1956.

An independent project while studying at Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, where the Curriculum in all the disciplines begins with a first year Comprehensive Foundation Course which included, among the other disciplines, studies with photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, certainly great inspirations in my lifelong love affair with Photography.

It helped that the darkrooms at the Institute of Design were open 24 hours. In fact, all classes were always open to students in any of the disciplines taught at the Institute, fostering its multi-disciplinary mindfulness.