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Thall, Bob. City Spaces: Photographs of Chicago Alleys. Photographs by Bob Thall.
Thall, Bob. City Spaces: Photographs of Chicago Alleys. Photographs by Bob Thall.
Center for American Places, 2002. First edition, first printing, Fine hardcover in red cloth with near fine protected dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks at corners. 86 pages with black and white photographs by Thall, who began photographing Chicago in 1971. At time of publication, Thall was a professor and photography department chair at Columbia College in Chicago, from which he stepped down in 2011. A graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago, he is a past Guggenheim fellow and his work has been exhibited frequently and is in many prestigious museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. This is his third book of photographs of Chicago. Finely printed photographs of urban architecture and spaces made with tritone separations on 150 gsm Silk Mediaprint paper. Afterword by Ross Miller.