About four years ago, the Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University mounted an exhibition of photographs from the Reader’s black-and-white era, which ended in 2004. The gallery is small, maybe three rooms, and on opening night, it was packed with old Reader people, many of whom had flown back to Chicago from wherever they’d moved to […]
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Art Shay’s new show captures the ‘Troublemakers’ who made history
Three hundred photos, many never seen before, depict the Chicago social movements of the 1950s and ’60s.
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Art Shay ‘Troublemakers’
The title of Art Shay’s new photo exhibit, “Troublemakers,” was deliberately chosen to play with audience expectations, says Erik Gellman, the Roosevelt University history professor who curated it. Visitors may come in expecting to see images of hooligans. Instead they’ll find photos of scenes from the freedom movements of the 1950s and ’60s as they […]
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Black and white and all over
A Roosevelt University exhibit showcases a great, bygone era of Reader photography.