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Summary: Chicago People Speaking for Themselves
Review: "You won't see the men and women pictured here on society pages or hobnobbing with the mayor..." (From the introduction.)Photographer Richard Younker has produced an important book, based upon more than 20 years of photographing and interviewing "ordinary people" in the Chicago area. He has given a voice to people rarely heard from, the people whose gaze we avoid in the street, who we often ignore and put out of mind. Yet these people are part of America and my city, and it's good to hear from them, if only for the three or four paragraphs reproduced across from their images. And the photography! Younker is a very subtle, fly on the wall operator, and his images ring true. In some he has confronted his subjects, in others they seem unaware of his presence. All the images "work," providing a wide ranging look at a variety of people he describes as "living close to the edge." Chicago People is a fine piece of work. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Chicago People Speaking for Themselves
Review: "You won't see the men and women pictured here on society pages or hobnobbing with the mayor..." (From the introduction.) Photographer Richard Younker has produced an important book, based upon more than 20 years of photographing and interviewing "ordinary people" in the Chicago area. He has given a voice to people rarely heard from, the people whose gaze we avoid in the street, who we often ignore and put out of mind. Yet these people are part of America and my city, and it's good to hear from them, if only for the three or four paragraphs reproduced across from their images. And the photography! Younker is a very subtle, fly on the wall operator, and his images ring true. In some he has confronted his subjects, in others they seem unaware of his presence. All the images "work," providing a wide ranging look at a variety of people he describes as "living close to the edge." Chicago People is a fine piece of work. Highly recommended!
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