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Informationen zum Autor Award-winning photojournalist Santi Visalli’s photographs have appeared in Time! Newsweek! and the New York Times! as well as in other leading magazines and newspapers throughout the world. He is the author of Universe’s San Francisco! New York! Washington DC! Los Angeles! Las Vegas! and Boston. Stanley Tigerman has designed buildings through-out the world. In 1988 he designed the installation for the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition “Chicago Architecture: 1872—1922.” The following year he organized the “99 Chicago Architects” at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Klappentext This handy format showcases Chicago's greatest sites and views! including four gatefolds of breathtaking panoramic beauty that capture the visual paradoxes and triumphs of this famous city by the lake. Visalli photographs the architectural masterpieces famous throughout the world?from Louis Sullivan's ornamental facades to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's sleek office towers?as well as the works of the new generation of the Chicago School of Architecture. But Chicago is about more than buildings: Visalli shoots the dark girders of the El! the taverns open all night! and the pomp of Michigan Avenue. With more than 200 images! Chicago captures the visual paradoxes and triumphs of this great American city. Zusammenfassung This handy format showcases Chicago’s greatest sites and views! including four gatefolds of breathtaking panoramic beauty that capture the visual paradoxes and triumphs of this famous city by the lake. Visalli photographs the architectural masterpieces famous throughout the world?from Louis Sullivan’s ornamental facades to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s sleek office towers?as well as the works of the new generation of the Chicago School of Architecture. But Chicago is about more than buildings: Visalli shoots the dark girders of the El! the taverns open all night! and the pomp of Michigan Avenue. With more than 200 images! Chicago captures the visual paradoxes and triumphs of this great American city. ...
